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(With Marginal Classification and Reference.) 



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Lord Chief Justice of England. 



A man so various that he seemed to be, 
Not one, but all mankind's epitome. 

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PREFACE 



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There is no work more laborious than the Compiler's and none less 
appreciated. If at the advent of an author, who offers the fruit of his 
imagination, there are hundreds who think they could have done better 
there will be, on the production of any work that merely requires labour 
and judgment, thousands, and among them the most indolent, who will 
say, "What is it worth? Anyone could do this." No credit is given 
for design or method, but some trivial fault is discovered. Columbus 
having set up his egg, not only can every easy-chair pilot set up his also, 
but will demonstrate that the navigator's egg is a little out of the per- 
pendicular, while his triumphant copy points from the nadir to the zenith. 
That a work of the dimensions of this Dictionary should be perfect is 
almost impossible ; passages, however common place, and having no 
Shaksperian characteristic, will, if they relate to any subject heading a 
page in this work, be considered essential by many persons ; but the 
author has purposely omitted all such passages, as this work is not a 
concordance, but a collection of beautiful, striking, or suggestive lines, 
arranged according to their subjects. Doubtless, however, some quaint 
and curious passages have been passed, and the author has no excuse 
but that he is only human, and that no compiler yet has produced so 
large a work, of a similar kind, free from all error. There are over four 
thousand quotations, and he who discovers some others that should 
have been among them, will be happy in his knowledge, while the less 
learned reader, whatever may be his need, will be hardly likely to miss 
them. It may be urged by some, that though the number of quotations 
given is ample, the subjects under which they are arranged are too few, 



PREFACE 

and that the title ' Dictionary ' is a misnomer. It must be apparent 
however, to the intelligent, that nearly every subject given includes 
others that should be understood, and that three out of every four 
quotations might be repeated over and over again under different 
headings, and thus swell the book into an unsaleable bulk. To avoid 
this, the author has confined himself to the strictly original sense in 
which the quotation was used. Again,, it would have been easy to have 
increased the number of subjects twenty-fold, by inserting such trite, 
commonplace lines as " I saw young Harry with his beaver on ; '" or, 
" Let's to billiards," under the headings of Beaver and Billiards. But if 
such quotations as these are admitted, it is obvious no single line of 
Shakspere's should be omitted. There are also, no doubt, hundreds 
of quotable lines that will not be found in this work, or, if found, not 
placed under the expected heading, but in the Addenda. The circum- 
stances under which they have been used gave them their point, and the 
relevancy for the moment was less in the quotation than in the way it 
was applied. One might say of a conceited fool — " Thou wilt fall back- 
ward when thou hast more wit ;" or of an empty theatre — " A beggarly 
account of empty boxes," or to a tailor — " Go to the creating a whole 
tribe of fops." But each line, tho' fit enough, would be strained from its 
original meaning, and the author fails to see what justification could be 
urged for playing " such fantastic tricks " with the writings of the great 
poet. If the compiler has a worthy object, and has in the main fulfilled 
his design, all is done that can reasonably be expected. 

There have been many books of Shaksperian Quotations published, 
which, tho' delightful books to read at idle moments, were tiresome ones 
to the busy student who wished rapidly to find a passage of which he 
remembered the idea but no leading word or phrase. In this work the 
author has given a classification of the ideas, so that when the book is 
used simply for reference no time is lost in search, but the eye passing 
rapidly down the margin falls at once upon the passage required, 
directed' by the words which give "the baby figure of the giant mass to 
come at large." 

The student of Shakspere into whose hands a work of this kind falls 
for the first time, will have a new delight. When we become thoroughly 
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PREFACE. 

acquainted with the incidents of a drama, the mere action of the play no 
longer pleases us in reading; the lines that simply connect the scenes, 
or direct the movements of the characters, when novelty is passed have 
lost their charm, and we turn over the leaves and rest on favourite 
passages. We often learn to like those best that express our own 
feelings, and persuade ourselves that our prejudice was shared by the 
great man. A comparison of all that he has said on a subiect may lead 
us to distinguish between the sentiments he held and those he thought 
fit, for dramatic purposes, to put into the mouths of his characters. To 
the idler, a work of this kind needs no recommendation; some pervading 
idea generally holds sway in the mind, and here he may take counsel of 
the wisest man. 

The great success of a work of Proverbial Philosophy, arranged under 
headings, as "Love," "Marriage," "Sorrow," and the like, shows how 
ready people are to accept a guide if he will only talk to them on a 
favourite theme ; for Sorrow is never tired of its sadness, and Love will 
listen for ever to one who will sing only his song. To compare the 
much laughed at, but much read author of Proverbial Philosophy to 
Shakspere, would expose one to a charge of mockery, but the fact 
remains that this work, leaving out of consideration its use as a book of 
reference, is similar in character to that notorious production, and to 
those who have found pleasure and comfort in its pages, it may be safely 
said as much and more may be found here, bettered by true poetry, 
sound advice, perfect wisdom, and a knowledge that is almost pro- 
phetic. 

London, 1875. 



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NOTE. 

The words that should be prefixed or annexed to the classification in the .margin 
are to be understood, and supplied in the mind of the reader. Such words, for 
example, as and, of versus, or, for, to, in, with, &c. By way of illustration, 
take the subject Accusation ; classification — Great Men, the word against being 
understood. In cases, however, where any difficulty or ambiguity appears, the 
words omitted in the margin will be found in the Digest. 



ERRATA. 

Page 7, Ambition : classification, Pride — Fall, for " and fall on the other — " read, 
" and fall on the other side." 
,, 12, Beauty : classification, Descriptive of Virginal, for "virginal," read "virgin." 
,, 127, Love: classification, Women — Tears, for "tears," read "fears." 
,, 217, Sun : classification, Universal — Comforts, for "comforts," read "comfort." 



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DIGEST. 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



ACCUSATIONS 
ACTING 

ACTORS 

ACTION (See also Deeds) 

ADVICE 

AGE (Old, &c) 



AMBITION 



ANGER .. 



APPEARANCE (See also 
Dress)... 



ART 

ARTISTS 

AUTHORITY 



BEAUTY... 



against Great Men. Justifying, Regret for. 

Overdone and Tameness in. Passion and Action. Purpose of 
Nature in. Speech in. Words and Action in. Wretched- 
ness, Overdone in. 

Bad, descriptive of. Clowns. Conceited. Dull. Good, 
descriptive of. Mankind. Onions and Breath. Praise. 
Times (The). Tragedian, descriptive of. 

Careful. Continual, a Protest. Futile. Graceful, in Praise of. 
Great, Impediments to. v. Inaction, v. Inaction and Pride. 
Inciting to. Indiscreet. Misinterpreted. Necessary. Q.uick. 

of Friends, and Success. Futile against Rage. Futile against 
Wilfulness, to Others v. Self. 

and Beauty, its Power. Covetousness of. Descriptive of. Descrip- 
tive of, Voice, and Folly. Folly v. Childishness. Gravity in, 
Becoming. Hearty. Inconsiderate. Ingratitude of. Judg- 
ment of, Bad. and Love. Middle Age and Love. Neg- 
lected, and Neglected Greatness. Powerless against Beauty. 
Prime, and Providence. Second-childhood. Signs of. and 
Temper, and Wisdom. Witless, v. Youth, v. Youth and 



Marriage. 



Dangerous in Soldiers, 
and Humility, v. 
a Shadow, a Sin. 



and Death, a Dream. Fame in War. 
Meekness in Priests. Pride and Fall. 
Stern. Thoughts, in Youth. 



Control of. and Courage. Disregarded. Expressions of. a 
Folly. Losers are Privileged. Privileged. Rebuked. Sin, 
v. Tameness. Wrongs. Unwise against Foes, in Woman, 
Unbecoming, v. Wisdom and Peace. 

Deceptive. Deceptive, and Dress. Descriptive of, and Dress, and 
Dress. Rich and Poor. Faces v. Hearts. Judging by, 
Wrong. Misjudged. Misjudged, a Rebuke. Praised. 
Recognition by. ... 

and Nature. Sculpture, Praised. Subjection of, to Authority. . . . 

Sculptor, Praised. Talent v. Genius. 

Awe of. Corrupted, and Punishment, its Errors, Privileged, 
and Gold, its Influence, and Insubordination in the Army, 
its Evil, its Power. Pride of. and Quarrels. Wrested. 
Unjust. 

and Age. and Art. Blushes and Paleness. Children and 
Parents. and Death. Descriptive of. Descriptive of, in 
Anger. Descriptive of, Color. Descriptive of, Eyebrows. 
Descriptive of, Manly. Descriptive of, Virgin. Descriptive of, 
and Voice. Dimples. Faults. Flattery. Folly. Goodness, 
and Grief, its Effect. Hidden. Kindness. Loss of , in old Age. 
Loss of, for Ever. Portrait. Power of. Praised, its Pride. 



2—3 

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IX 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



BEAUTY... 

BIRDS ... 
BLESSINGS 
BLOOD ... 

BLUNTNESS 

BOASTERS 

BREATH 

BUSINESS 

CA.RE ... 
CELIBACY 

CHANCE 

CHASTITY 

CHILDREN 



CHOICE 

CONCLUSIONS 
CONDEMNATION 
CONSCIENCE 

CONSOLATION 

CONSTANCY 

CONTENTMENT 

COURAGE 

COWARDS (Cowardice) 
CREDULITY 

CURSES 

CUSTOM (s) (See also 
Habit) 

CYNICS 

DANCERS 

DANGER 



Sense of one's own. Sickness. Slander. Temptation. 
Time, its Effect on. Time and Opportunity. Transient. 
"Virtue. Wickedness. Wisdom. 

Imprisoned, the Lark. Singing, the Swallow. 

Asking for. A Double. A Mother's. 

Tainted and Untainted. 



Pronouncing. 



Affected, v. Civility, v. Eloquence, a Fault, of Speech, and 
Stories, telling. 

Courage, descriptive of. and Exposure. Rebuked. 

Foul, and Onions. Sweet. 

Indifference to. and Love, at Night. Urging, Commence- 
ment. Urgent. 

Enemy to Life. Loss of, Regretted. Sleep and old -Age. Useless. 

Convent. Condemned. Descriptive of. Praised. Vow of, 
and Youth. 

Descriptive of. Enemies and Friends. 

Descriptive of. and Temptation. ... 

•Adopted. Bastard. Beautiful. Comfort of. Clever. Descriptive 
of, Infants. Influence. Likeness to Parents. Parentage, 
Uncertain. Parentage, Condemned. Parents and Money. 
Sick, and Sorrow. Trusting Daughters. Ungrateful. 

Alternatives. Bad, Rebuked. Common, Disclaiming. Judg- 
ment. Judgment in, Shallow. 

Descriptive of. Foregone. ... 

of Others. Sin and Sinners. Unequal. ... 

Cowardice. Descriptive of. Wicked. and Fear in a Thief. 
Guilty, its Reward. Plays, their Influence. Quick, and 
Resolution. 

Job — Comforting, in Losses. Others v. Self, to Others in 
Trouble. Tardy. 

Descriptive of. Faith, and Man, Perfect. Women. Vow of. 

and Crowns of Kings, v. Discontent. Happiness. Poverty and 
Wealth. Safety in 



Asserting. 



in Danger. 



Death. 



v. Discretion, and Famine, 
in Honesty. Inciting to. Men and Women. Moral. 
Moral, the True. v. Politeness, v. Rashness. 

Appearance, Good. Boasting. Death. Descriptive of. and Ex- 
ample, in Battle. Fear and Love. Foes, Weakness. 
Humility, Base. Men and Women. Rebuked, Man. 

Descriptive of. Fools and Teachers. Gcodnatured (people). 
Husbands and Jealousy. Sayings v. Deeds. Women and 
Men 

Descriptive of. Rebuked, of Tongue v. Heart. Useless. 

Breach, and Great Men. Habit. New, Fashionable. Old 
and New. Truth and Error. Use. ... 



Descriptive of. 

Descriptive of. 

Descriptive of. 
Safety. ... 



Graceful. 
Hidden. 



Desired. of Inaction. Invention. 



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SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



DAY 

DEATH .. 



DEBTS ... 



DECEIT... 



DEEDS (See also Action 
(s)) 



DELAY ... 

DESERTION 
DESPAIR 
DEVIL ... 

DOGS ... 

DREAMS 



DRESS (See also Ap- 
pearance) 

DRINK 



DUTY 

ECHO 

ELOQUENCE ... 

ENEMIES 

ENGLAND (English) 

ENVY 

EVIDENCE 
EVIL (s) 

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Glorious. Morning, descriptive of. Unlucky. ... 

Apparent. and a Bad Life. Consolation. Courage, 
Expressing. Debt to God. Descriptive of. Desire for. 
Distinctions between High and Low. Expecting. Fear of in 
Cowards. Fear of, Folly. Fear of the Pain. Funeral 
Obscure. Happiness. High and Low. Indifference. In- 
spiration. Kings and Beggars. Kings and Sages. Know- 
ledge. Leveller. Life and Eternity, v. Life, Love of. 
Lovers. Mirth. News, Doctor. Pomp, Glory. Pos- 
sessions. Quiet. Readiness. Repentance. Resolution. 
Signs of Approaching. Singing. Sleep. Sleep and Dreams. 
Sudden. Unprepared. Warning. Words of Dying Men. 
Youth. Youth and Beauty. ... 

and Bonds of Lovers. Death, a Payment, 
ment and Promises. ... 



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and Friends. Pay- 



Fair, Looks. Justified for Friends, of the World. 

Evil. Evil, false to Marriage. Evil, at Night. Evil, and Pity. 
Evil, and Regret. Evil, v. Words. Fear to Attempt. Good. 
Good, and Light. Good, Unpraised. Hesitation. Incom- 
plete. Justifying. Performance. Performance and Promise. 
Persisted, and Repentance. Price. Recrimination. Re- 
luctance. Temptation. Unnatural, v. Words. ... 

Dangerous. Descriptive of, and Beggary. Suspense, and 
Thinking. 

Descriptive of. 

Descriptive of. Expressing. 

and Death, his Due. a Gentleman, and Scripture, and 
Temptation, and Truth. Wine, Inordinate Use of 

Descriptive of. Hounds, their Lick and Sores. Physic. Qualities, 
Different. 

Bad. Belief in. Delusion. Descriptive of Queen Mab. and 
Falsehood, and Fear, and Foregone Acts. Happy, and 
Life. Presaging Joy. 

Bad. Costly, Advice. Deceptive. Descriptive of. Fashion 
Fool's. Mind v. Body. 

Ale for Kings. And Brains, Weak. Death and Drunkenness 
Drunkard. Drunkard, Excuse. and Englishmen. In 
temperance. Intemperance of Kings, and Lechery, and 
Memory. Money. Unkindness. v. Water. Wine in 
Moderation. Youth and age. 

to Father and Husband. Reward, Simpleness. Simpleness, 
Respect. 

Descriptive of. Hunting. Singing. Sorrow. ... 

v. Action to the Ignorant. Descriptive of. v. Plainness. 

Friends, Chance. Fortune. v. Hollow Friends. Poverty. 
Power. ... 

Boast. Character. Decline. Descriptive of, Praise. Past and 
Present. Praise. Revolution. Secure against Foes. v. 
the World 

and Virtue. ... 

Circumstantial. Confirmed. Marks, Natural. ... 

Alternatives, Choice. General, of Life. v. Good in Man. 



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SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



EVILS (s) 

EXCUSES 
EXILE 

EXPERIENCE ... 

EXTRAVAGANCE 
EYES 



FACES 



FALSEHOOD 



FAME (See also Glory) 
FAREWELLS 



FASHION (See also No- 
velty)... 

FATE 



FAULTFINDERS 
FAULTS 



FEAR 



FLATTERERS ... 
FLATTERY 

FLOWERS 



FOLLY ... 
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Infection. 
Justice. 

Faults, Love. 



Orphan. Patient and Doctor. Widow and 

Faults, Worse. Guilt. Shame. Small Faults. 
Descriptive of. Language. Sunshine, 



Death, a comparison 
a Consolation. . . . 

Home v, Abroad. of Others, Futile. Perfection, Man. v. 
Sadness. Wilfulness. 

Comparison to the Sun. and Friends, Loss of. ... 

Appearance, Haste. Brain, Troubled Descriptive of, Beau- 
tiful. Descriptive of, Blue. Eyelashes. Inviting. In- 
viting and Modest. Judgment. Blind, Minds. Language. 
Loss. Painter, Beautiful. Power. Stars, v. Tongue, 
Offence. True, and Offences. Wicked, of Women, Eye- 
brows, of Women, v. Learning. Women, Scornful. 
Women, Sleep. Women, Tears. Women, Wooing. Wooing, 
Kisses 

Blushing. Blushing, and Modesty. Changed, and Character. 
Complexion. Control of. Descriptive of the Character by. 
Descriptive of a Worn, of Men v. Women. Painted. Round, 
Foolish, and Sorrow. Tell-Tale. ... 

and Antique Fables. Appearance, Deceptive, for Friendship. 
Palpable, in the Poor and Rich. Policy. Self- Credited. 
v. Truth, and the Devil. Women and Conscience. 



Descriptive of. 
Descriptive of. 



Glory, 
luctant. 



a Virtue. 



to England. 



to Happiness. 
Tears. Time. 



for Ever. Fee, Kisses, to 
Lover's. Lover's, Hasty. Re- 
v. Welcomes. 



Old and New. 

v. Providence. 



Descriptive of. Followers. Imitating, 

Assurance. Avoidance, Futile. Mastering, 
Resistance, Futile. Resolved against. 

Descriptive of . Self v. Others. 

Discovered. Excuses. Faultfinders, Old. in Favourites, Excused. 
Full of, Descriptive of. and Good Men. In All. Law. Love. 
Rash, in the Rich. Self-Amendment. Self-Blindness to. a 
Single, and Virtues. Small, Lenity to. Unmentionable. 
Useful, sometimes. 

Actions. Appearance. Baseness. of the Dead. Descriptive 
of. Extreme, Foolish. Fearless. Folly of. General. 
Greatness. and Hate, by Instinct. Judgment, the 
Cause of. Nobility, Exempt. v. Penitence. Reason. 
Success, Mistrust. Suspense. Tyrants. Women, Love, 
in Women, Natural, and Wrongs, the Cause. 

All Men. Descriptive of. Fortune and Friends. Men, Be- 
trayed by. 

Beauty. Compliments, Feigning. Condemnation. Counsel. 
Danger. Descriptive of. Dislike. Justified, for Peace 
sake. Mirror. The Poor and Rich. Power of, on 
. Women, Sin. Vanity. Villainy's Mask. ... 

Bank of, Descriptive of. Carnations, Gillyflowers. Daffodils. 
Distilled. on Grave. Language. Memento, Love. 
Oxlips and Lillies. like Pleasures. Primroses. Properties. 
Purples. Rain. Rosemary and Rue. Violets. 

in Sage, and Fool. Skill. Sun. Wisdom. 



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SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



FOOD (Meals) 

FOOLS 

FOPS 

FORGIVENESS 

FORTUNE (See also 
Misfortune) ... 



FRIENDS 



FRIENDSHIP ... 

FUTURE 

GENTLEMEN ... 
GENTLENESS .., 
GHOSTS 
GIFTS 



GLORY 

GOLD (See Money or 
Riches) 

GOOD 

GOODNESS (Kindness) .. 



GORMANDS . 
GOVERNMENT. 

GREATNESS... 



Digestion, Health. Discourse, Fasting - . Disturbed. Eager. 
Fasting, Maladies. Feasts. Feasts, Welcomes. Home 
and Abroad. Temper. Welcomes. Worms. 

Brainless, Descriptive of. Credulous, Descriptive of. Dulness 
and Wit. and Fortune. Sage. Sick. Slander of. Virtuous, 
and Wife. v. Wise Men. Wit. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of, Rich. Descriptive of, Shallow. ... 

Granting. Imploring. Repeated. 

Coming, Sign of. Decline in old Age. Decline of, and 
Friends. Descriptive of, Gifts of. Fickle. Flattery. Fools. 
Height and Decline. Incomplete, Ever. v. Independence 
of Spirit. Inequality of. Judgments, Influenced by. Loss 
of, and Friends. and Love, Influence on. Misfortune, 
Indifference to. Opportunity, and the Poor. Pride. Un- 
deserved. Wealth v. Competency, and Wisdom, Power 
of. and Women. 

Absent. Accidents make Foes, and Animals, Instinct of. 
Assistance, and Confidence, Withheld. Dangerous, and 
Dispositions Alike. False, Descriptive of. Flattering. For- 
bearance. Forgotten. Forswearing. and Goods, In 
common. Hollow, v. Foes. Love. Number. Old and 
New. and the Poor, and Fortune. True. Truth of, in 
Trial. Trusting, Advice as to. Use. in Wealth and Poverty. 

Asserting. Ceremony. Descriptive of. False. Feigned. 
Flattery. Foolish. Forgotten. Loans and Interest. and 
Love. Platonic, Danger of. of Wicked — Men 

After-Death, Unknown. Descriptive of. Knowledge of, 
Desired. Knowledge of, and Despair. Times, Prophecy. 
Uncertain. 

Adam, Profession. Descriptive of. Descriptive of a Poor. 
Devil. (The) Education. Plebeian, and Son. Young. . . . 

Blessings. Power. Want of. a Weakness. Weakness, 
Descriptive of 



Addressing 



Descriptive of. Ridiculed. 



and Cock-crow. 
Visiting, Earth. 

of Fortune and Nature. and Giver v. Value. Giver, 
Descriptive of. of Heaven, a Complaint. Knowledge. 
Beauty. of Nature. of Nature, Use. Power on 
Women. Of Rich — Men. Reluctant. Superfluous. Value. 
Value, in Love. Value, when Lost. Women, and Tears. 
Of Women to Men 

Crimes. Descriptive of, Great. Little, of War, Ridiculed, 
its Wretchedness. 



Abuse. 



Revenge. 



in Everything. 

Bold. Cruelty. Descriptive of 
Relatives. v. 
fluenced by. 

Brainless, Descriptive of. . 

Mystery. Obedience to. 
Young 

and Abuse of Power, 
and Fattery. Death 



v. Evil. Name. 



Philanthropy. 
Unfortunate. 



Praise, and 
Woman, In- 



Power and Knowledge. Rulers, 



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59—60 

60 



60—62 



62 — 64 
64—65 



65-66 

66 
66—67 



Aim, True. Burden. Ceremonv, 
Decline. Descriptive of. Fallen, 



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68 

68—69 

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69 

69—70 

70—72 



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SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



GREATNESS 



GREED ... 
GRIEF ... 



GUESTS 

GUILT 

HABIT(See also Custom) 
HAIR 

HANDS 

HAPPINESS 

HASTE 

HATE 

HERESY (Heretic) ... 
HOME 

HONESTY 

HONOUR (s) 

HOPE 

HORSES 

HUNTING 

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and Friends. Fallen, 
Favours, Uncertainty. 



a Farewell. Fallen, a Happiness 
Hidden, Descriptive of. Lost 



Love. v. Lowliness and Content. Modesty. Self. 
Knowledge. Slander. Soiled. Thought v. Action 
True. Uncertainty. ... 

Folly, Descriptive of. its Influence. 

Affected. Alone, Suffering. Anticipation. Appearance. Beauty 
Checked. Consolation. Control. Courage, Pride. Death, 
Result. Descriptive of, Great. Duration. Duration, 
and Worth. Looks, Expressing. Extreme. Every- 
where. Fellowship. Folly, of Immoderate. Foreboding. 
Good — Effect. Great, Effect. Great, Cure. Great, and 
Lesser Hidden. Ill, Effect. Imagination. Impatient. 
Indifference. Insanity, and Joy, Mixed. Moderate, and 
Excessive. Mock. Old and New. Passive. Prolonged — 
a Fault. Real, and Reason. Relating. Silent. Sleep. 
Sympathy. Sympathy, Mocked. Tears, Comfort. Time. 
Unknown. Unspoken. Unreasonable. and Wisdom, 
and Words, and Words of Women 



and Host. Unbidden. 
v. Farewell 



Wedding and Fathers. Welcome, 



Descriptive of. and Fear. 
Descriptive 



Conscience. Conscience and Fear. 
Self-Betraying. 

Bad v. Good. Breaking. Breaking, Difficulty 
of. Power of, for Good. 

Brown. Descriptive of. Carelessly, Dressed. Chestnut, on 
the Face, of Men. False. Golden, Descriptive of. Por- 
trait of, Golden. Red, Character. ... 

Bloody, by Murder. Descriptive of Beautiful. Descriptive of 
Coarse. Descriptive of Health. Descriptive of White 
Idle v. Intelligence. Innocent. Labour and Brave Minds 
v. Weapons in Quarrels. Youth and Health 

Competency v. Superfluity. Descriptive of. Heaven v. Earth 
of Others. Silent. Transient, in Virtue, and Philosophy. .. 

Business, v. Caution and Slowness. Descriptive of. Inciting 
to, Descriptive of. 
the Folly of. ... 

and Fear, and Killing 

Descriptive of. 

Absent, Mirth. Keeping, Descriptive of. 
perienced. Meals. 

Adversity. Asserting, v. Beauty. Courage. Description of, 
Men. Descriptive of, Praise. Dishonesty, and Fortune, 
and Women. Folly. Poverty. Rare. 

Asserting. Bestowal of, Reason, for Bribery. Burden. 
Danger. Death. Descriptive of. Desired. Emulation. 
False. Life. Loss. Misplaced. mere Title, v. True. 
True. True v. False. True, Descriptive of. 

Deceptive. Descriptive of, Power. Future. False. High, 
and Low. Lovers. and the Miserable. Pleasure, of 
Imagination. ... 



Looks. and the Negligent. Violent, 
Words of, in Sport. 

Keeping, Inex- 



Descriptive of. Descriptive of, Rider. 
Descriptive cf, the Hare. Music. 



Young, Burthen 'd. 



70 — 72 
73 



73—77 
77—78 

78 
78 

78—79 

79 — 80 
80 

80—81 
81 

81 

81 

81—83 

83—84 

84—85 

85 
85—86 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



HUSBANDS (See also 
Wives)... 

HYPOCRISY 

HYPOCRITES 

IDLENESS 

IGNORANCE 

IMAGINATION (See also 
Thoughts) 

INCONSTANCY 

INDEX 

INGRATITUDE 

INNOCENCE 

INVENTION 

JEALOUSY 

JESTERS 



JOY (See also Happi- 
ness) ... 

JUDGES 

JUSTICE (See also 
Mercy) 

KINGS 



Henpecked. Liberty. 
Truant, Advice to. 
and Wives. ... 



KISSES 



KNAVES 



KNIGHTS 



KNOWLEDGE (See also 
Learning) 



v. Bachelors. Fools. Head of Wife 
v. Lovers. Neglectful. Truant. 
Widowers, their Consolation. 

Descriptive of. Punishment. In Religion. 

Appearance, Devils, others Deceived by Appearance. Des- 
criptive of. Religious. Tears. 

Ashamed. Danger. Descriptive of. v. Industry. 

Curse. Darkness. Descriptive of. v. Knowledge, of Wrongs. 

Day. Dreams. Descriptive of. Power, v. Reality. 

Descriptive of. Lovers. Descriptive of. Men. Women v. Men. 

Descriptive of. 

in old Age. Astonishment at. Debts and Repayment. De- 

Filial. to God. Vice, the Worst. 

v. Guilt of the World. Power, v. 



Effects. 



scriptive of 

Descriptive of, Childhood 
Suspicion. Triumph. 

Descriptive of. Fear and Necessity. New and Old. 

of Accomplishments in Wife. Descriptive of. Disclaiming. 
Fools. in Love, its agony. v. Proof. Trifles. Un- 
reasonable. Workings, Descriptive of. 

their Art. Descriptive of. Dry. God-Fearing. Good. Good, 
Jangling. Meagre. Old. Prophets. Rude. Sad. Self- 
Praising. 

Excess, Expressing. Great. Hope. Reliance, in the Young. 
Silence. Violent. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of, Qualities. Descriptive of, Wise, 
their Function, v. Thief. 

just Claims. Descriptive of. Descriptive of, Trials. Heaven, v. 
Earth, v. Law, Wrongs of. v. Mercy. Self. Sparing. 
Retributive. Retributive, Triumph. 

Care. Ceremony. Content. Death. Deposed. Descriptive 
of. Divine Right. Equality, and Evil Deeds. Example. 
Falsehood. Favorites. Favors. Freedom. Government. 
Hope. Intemperance. Irresponsibility. Love, and Fear. 
Manners Mercy. Mock, Descriptive of. Name, Power 
of. Obedience to. Person, Sacred. Presence. Respect. 
Secrets. Sleep. Subjects and War. Substitute. Sycophants. 
Treason, Fear of. Usurper, and War, Responsibility 
of 

Blushes, Modesty. Chaste and Cold. Descriptive of. Dura- 
tion. False. Hurried and Sad. Lips, Descriptive of. 
Shadows. Women, Influence on. and Women, and 
Marriage. 

Compacts with. Cowardly. Descriptive of. Descriptive of 
Foolish. Descriptive of Slanderous. Example. Hypocrisy. 
Old. Plain-Dealing. Rich and Poor. Self -Knowledge. ... 

Carpet, Descriptive of. Descriptive of Order of Knighthood. 

Assumed. Dangerous, of Each Other, v. Fortune, and Power, 
v. Ignoranee. Intuitive, of Danger. Misplaced. Occult. 
v. Riches and Honours. Self -Deprecating. Too Much, and 
Fame. 



86—87 
88 

88—89 

89 
89 — 90 

90 
90—91 

9 1 
91—92 

92 
93 

93—94 

94—95 

95 
96 

96—97 



-101 



101 



101 — 103 



103 



103 — 104 



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SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



LABOUR 

LAUGHTER 
LAW 



LAWYERS 



LEARNING (See also 
Knowledge) ... 

LIBERALITY (Charity) 

LIBERTY 

LIFE (See also Man) ... 



Aim. For All. 
Pleasures. 



v. Holidays. Labourer, Descriptive of. 



LOSSES ... 
LOVE ... 



LOVERS... 



Tears of. and Winners. ... 

Bonds. Descriptive of. Descriptive of, lying Dormant. De- 
scriptive of, Juries. Dormant, Evil of. and Eloquence. 
Ignorance of. Mercy of. the Poor, administering to Self and 
Others. Wrongs of the. 

Descriptive of. Good, and Clients. Good, Descriptive of. and 
Time, in the Vacation. 

Advice as to Astronomy. v. the Beauty of Women, v. 
Health. Lost. Mind v. Body, and Poverty, v. Riches 
and Honours. Too Late. Vain. 

in Churchmen, in the Gods, v. Men. True. ... 

Headstrong. Limited. 

a Base. v. Death, Descriptive of. Descriptive of, Brevity. 
Descriptive of, a Dream. Descriptive of, End. Descriptive 
of, Stage. Future, Careless of. Future, Hope of. 
Great Men. Hopeless. Madness. Miseries. Nobleness. 
Rural. Sweetness. Tedious. 

Descriptive of, Search for. and the Gifts of Heaven. Irre- 
parable. Value. 

Absence. Advice, Futile, in old Age. keeping Appointments. 
Asserting, Great, v. Bacchus. Blindness. Chance. Choice. 
Choice, Another's. Company. Concealment. Confession. 
Conscience. Consummated. Counterfeit, after Death. 
Descriptive of. Discovery. Disclaiming. Dying for. in 
Earnest, v. in Sport. Entreating. Excuse. Faithless. 
Faults. Fears, at First Sight. Flattery and Folly, and 
Food, and Fortune. Free from. v. Friendship. Great, Un- 
wise, and Grief, and Hate. Hopeless, Ambitious, v. Hunt- 
ing. Imagination. Immoderate. Immoderate, Transient. 
Impediments. Imperfect. Infinite. Jealous. Letters, v. 
Lust, a Madness. Memory of past, in Men. Messengers 
of. and Mirth. Moderate, Long, and Music. Mutual, and 
Obedience. Partings. Perfect, and Pity, the Pleasure of, a 
Madness, and Poets. Power. Prosperity. Prosperity, v. 
Affliction, by Proxy, the Danger. Quarrel. Rhapsodies, 
v. Reason, and Religion. Renewal. Seals. Scorn. Second. 
Sensitive. Sight of Lovers. Signs. Showing. Silence. 
Smiles, and Frowns. Sought, v. Unsought. Striving to 
Show, and Suffering. Surfeting. Sympathy. Tales. 
Thoughts. Time. Too Late. Transient. Trifling. Troubles. 
Unalterable. Unkindness. Vowing. Vows. Waning, 
and Ceremony. Wayward, in Wicked Men. Women, and 
Age. Wcmen, and Men. Women, and Fears. Women, 
Wooing, and Youth. 

Absence, Time. old Age and Beauty. Appointments. 
Descriptive of. Dismissal. Ears. Eyes. False. Flattery. 
Flirts, their Folly. Hope. Hopes, and Fears. Imagina- 
tion. Impediments. Journeys. Kisses. Night. Oaths. 
Partings. Perjury. Poetry. Sight. Sympathy. Signs. 
Silence. Spring-Time. Time. Voices, Night. Wayward. 
Wooing, Coolness in. Wooing, Descriptive of. Wooing 
and Flirting. Wooing, Intention. Wooing, and Opportunity. 
Wooing, and Poetry. Wooing, in Scorn. Wooing, Tardy 
in. Wooing, Temper. Wooing, Times for. Wooing, 
Won, Quickly. Wooing, Wcman the Wooer. 



104 
104 



i°5 
106 




107 — 109 



109 — no 






no — 127 



127— 131 



XVI 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



LOYALTY 
LUST ... 



MADNESS (Madmen) 



MAN (Mankind) 



MAN (Sex) 



MAN (Individually) 



MANNERS 



MARRIAGE 



MASTERS (See also 
Servants) 

MELANCHOLY 



Descriptive of. to Fools, Folly. ... 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of Liberties, 
and Light, v. Love, and human 
Young. and Reason. Seduction. 
Virtue ... 



and Fear. Liberties 

Nature. in Old v 

Slavery, Man. v 



Descriptive of. Descriptive of, Deploring. Descriptive of, De- 
siring. Disclaiming, a Fever, in Great men. Letters 
of Love. Lovers. Lovers and Poets. Melancholy. Method. 
Moon 

Actors, in Life. Development of Mind. Equality and Dis- 
tinction. Freewill. Frailty. Ignorance and Actions. Life, 
Sensual. Lust and Laughter. Nobleness. Opportunity, 
Fortune. Pitiable Condition. Possessions. Possession, 
Death. Power and Pride. Reason and use of it. Vice, 
Age. Villainy. Virtues and Vices 

Conceited. Deceivers of Women. Effeminate. Fat v. Lean. 
Faults, and Best-Men. Inconstant to Women. Likes and 
Dislikes, as Lovers v. Husbands. of Merit. Merry and 
Sad. Merry when Abroad. Old, Liars. Popular. Silent. 
Temper. Trials. True. Vows to Women. Wilful, and 
Experience, v. Women and Faces. Women, their Power. 
Women, Wooing. 

Ambitious, and Dishonorable. Ambitious, and Envious. Brave and 
Gentle. Brave and Young. Careless. Changed by Love. 
Changed by Misfortune. Charitable. Churlish. Clever. 
Clever and Good. Clever and Handsome. Clever and 
Modest. Cold and Hard. Cowardly. Cruel. Cruel and 
Obdurate. Eloquent. Eccentric. Good. Goodnatured. 
Great. Great and Brave. Great, yet Faulty. Great and 
Greedy. Great and Temperate. Great and Popular. 
Great and Rich. Handsome. Handsome and Fashionable. 
Handsome and Honorable. Handsome and Strong. Hon- 
orable. Impostor. Irresolute, Great. Irresolute yet 
Ambitious. Lean and Thoughtful. Lean and Miserable. 
Learned and Eloquent. Liberal. Liberal and Generous. 
Liberal and Good. Mean and Churlish. Mean and 
Selfish. Melancholy. Merry. Merry and Wise. Merry 
and Witty. Proud and Foolish. Reformed. Resolute 
and Energetic. Self-made. Shallow. Studious. Studious 
and Sullen. Sullen. Sycophantic. Temperate and Kind. 
Vain. Woman-Hater. Worthy, Husband... 

Court, and Dress of Women. Example, of Acquaintances. 
Familiar v. Vulgar, and Grief, and Kings. New and 
Fashionable. Town v. Country. 

and Age of Sexes. Ancient v. Modern, and Beauty. Blessing, 
v. Celibacy. Civil v. Religious, its Curse. Disclaiming. 
Early. Enforced, Unhappy. Excuse. Faithless. Hasty, 
is Honorable. Ill-Matched. and Impediments, v. Law, 
and Policy. Nature, intention of. Purpose. Repentance. 
Second. Time. Unhappy. Well-Matched, and Women, 
and Kisses. 



Good. Servants. 



Cause, Secret. Descriptive of. Disclaiming. Experience. 
Expressing, Views. Incomprehensible, and Madness, v. 
Mirth, Extremes. Moon. Music. Nature. Recreation, 
the want of. Regretting, and Wise. Women, Descrip- 
tive of. ... 



*3 l 



131— 1 33 



L33—I34 



134—137 



137—139 



*39~ J 45 



HS 



I45—H7 
i47 



147—148 



xvu 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



MEMORY 


Descriptive of. Happy. Loss. Promise to Remember, and 
Purposes, and a Secret. Unhappy. 


148- 


—149 


MERCY 


Descriptive of, Blessed. Descriptive of, Godlike. Descriptive of, 
in Kings. Descriptive of its Quality. Disclaiming. Grant- 
ing. Imploring, v. Justice. Lawful v. Unlawful. Mis- 
taken, and Murder. Sin, emboldened by. Sin, Pardoned. 


149- 


-150 


MERIT 


and Beggary. Censure, and Fortune, v. Fortune and Honors. 
Power, its Pride. Wrongly, adjusted. 


: 


[ 5<> 


MIND (s) 


Blemish, Nature, v. Eyes and Judgment. Free from Pain. 
Guilty, and Sleep. Guilty, and Sickness. Guilty, and 
Memory. Noble. Noble, and Dross. and Sickness. 
Troubled. Unclean. ... 


] 


tSi 


MIRACLES 


Descriptive of. 


] 


[51 


MIRTH 


Assumed. Becoming, v. Care. v. Care and Old Age. Des- 
criptive of. v. Experience, and Sadness. Life, Long. Loss, 
v. Melancholy. v. Melancholy, Extremes. and Pain. 
Unreasonable. ... 


151- 


-152 


MISERY (See also Mis- 
fortune) 


and Civility. Descriptive of. and Friends. and Ingratitude. 
v. Mirth, Assumed, of Self, and Others. its Viccissitudes. 


] 


r52 


MISFORTUNE 


Descriptive of. Descriptive of the Worst. Disgrace. Effect, 
and Fate. Fortitude against, and Friends, Lost. Good 
Men. and Greatness, a Criterion. Philosophy. Remedies 
in one's Self, and Superfluity. Universal. Uses, Good 


152- 


-155 


MODESTY 


Descriptive of, Maiden. Excellence, a proof of. in Eyes. False, 
and Maidens, their Answers. Mock, in Voice. 


] 


[55 


MONEY (See also 
Riches) 


Dross. Fathers and Sons. Idol, Vile. Loans. Possession and 
Show. Power. Saving v. Use. Saving for Old Age. 


155- 


-157 


MOTIVE (s) 


Bad. Contrary. Good, but Unfortunate... 




[ 57 


MURDER 


Confederate in. and Conscience. Descriptive of. Discovery. 
Fratricide, of Good Men. Hands, Bloody. Justifying, 
and Mercy. Retribution, in Self-Defence. ... 


157- 


-.58 


MUSIC 


in Death. Descriptive of. Dislike to, a sign of Wickedness. 
Finish, effect on Grief, of the Heavens. Hunting. Love, 
and Madness. Melancholy. at Night. Night, Lovers. 
Power. Power on Animals. Sleep. Time. 


158- 


— 160 


NAMES 


Asking, of Kings, Influence of. Mother and Grandmother. 
Pleasing, Others. Right. Valueless... 




[60 


NATURE 


Animals, v. Art. Descriptive of, Power. and her Gifts. and 
Herbs and Plants. Human. Human, Bad. Human, and 
Tears. Parents and Children. Perfection of. Reality, 
v. Imagination. Suppressed.... 


160- 


-161 


NECESSITY 


and Demands. Descriptive of. Submission, a Virtue. 




161 


NEWS 


Bad, Fear of. and Bearer of Bad. and Bearer's Look. Good. 
Relating. Strange. ... 


161- 


— 162 


NIGHT ... ' 


Beautiful, Descriptive of. Descriptive of. Descriptive of, and 
Sin. Descriptive of Starless, and Grief, and Sleep, and 
Happiness. Hearing at. and Love, and Lovers' Voices, 
and Music. Repose v. Pleasures. 


162- 


—164 


NOVELTY (See also 
Fashion) 


Descriptive of, Fashion. 


■ 


[64 


NUMBERS 


Odd. Odd, Luck in. Yielding to. 


j 


[64 


OATHS (See also Vows) 


Forsworn. Legal, a Mockery, in Passion. Sinful, Unbinding, 
and Truth, v. Word. 


164 


—165 



XVlll 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



OFFENCES (See Faults) 
OPINION (s) 



OPPORTUNITY 

ORDER (See also 
Authority) ... 

ORNAMENT (Show) 

PAIN 

PATIENCE 

PATRIOTISM ... 
PEACE 



PERFUME (s) ... 

PERJURY 
PERSEVERANCE 
PHYSIC 

PITY 

PLAYS (Dramatic) 

PLEASURE (s) ... 

POETRY 

POETS 

POISON 

POLICY 

POLITENESS ... 

POMP 

POPULACE ... 

POPULARITY ... 

xix 



Circumstances, Change. Conviction, a Dangerous. Descriptive 
of. Disregarded, and Dress, Judging by. Expressing, Good. 
Many-Sided. Persecution for. Public, its Power. Singular 
v. Vulgar. Unalterable. Unanimous and Good. Un- 
certain. ... 



and Evil. Lost. 
Wrongs. 



and Sin. and Sin v. Virtue, and Sin and 



v. Anarchy. ... 

Deceptive. Disdain, and Possessions, its Power on the Mul- 
titude. ... 

Mind v. Body. Number, and Pleasures. Power on the Body. 
Toothache, and Philosophy. ... 

Cowardice. Descriptive of. Descriptive of Impatience, and Grief, 
and Grief, and Counsel. Impatience, Privileged, and Life, 
and Pain, against Rage. Wisdom of. :.. 

Descriptive of. Honor and Death. 

its Danger. Descriptive of. Descriptive of Armistice. Descrip- 
tive of Dangerous. Descriptive of the Evils of. Descriptive 
of Victory. Peacemaking. Universal, and War. v. War, 
Behaviour, v. War and Hardiness, and War and Prepara- 
tion. 

Arabia. Breath. Canary Wine. Civet. Descriptive of Bad. 
Flowers. Flowers, Roses. Riverside. 

Caution. Excused. Justifying, of Lovers. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of, and Counsel. Inciting, in Love. 

Descriptive of. and Life and Death. and Poison in Flowers. 
Protest against. 

in Animals. Descriptive of. Descriptive of, Tears. Disclaiming. 
Expressing. Folly. Imploring. Impolitic, and the Law. 
and Love. Profit (able). Times, Void of. ... 

and Audience, Vulgar. Descriptive of. Descriptive of a Bad. 
Descriptive of a Good. Influence on Guilt. Misunderstood. 
Wretchedness and Duty. 

Descriptive of. like Flowers. Lost, Valued, and Pain. Search 
after, v. Possession. Surfeit. Unreasonable. 

Bad, Descriptive of. Descriptive of Extempore. Power. 

and Beauty. Descriptive of. Descriptive of Bad. Descriptive 
of, their Imagination, and Love, and Madmen and Lovers. 
Praising, Vice. ... 



Descriptive of. 
and Gold. 
Flowers. 



Descriptive of Effect. Descriptive of Taking, 
in Physic, and Physicians, in Plants and 



v. Conscience. Descriptive of. Descriptive of Politician, and 
Love. In Man v. the Devil. ... 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of Extreme, v. Valour. 

Disclaiming, its Hollowness. its Wretchedness. 

v. the Aristocracy and Government. Contempt for. Contempt 
for, v. Flattery, their Ignorance of Merit, their Ingratitude, 
in Power, the Danger. Uncertain, Descriptive of. ... 

Descriptive of, how Won. and Faults. Uncertain. 



165 — 166 



166 — 167 
167 
168 
168 

168—169 
170 



170—171 

171 — 172 

172 

i7 2 — 1 73 
173 

i73— 1 74 

i74 

I74—I75 
175—176 

176 

176 — 177 

177 
178 
178 

178—180 
180 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



POVERTY (The Poor)... 



PRAISE 

PRAYER (s) 

PRESENTIMENT (s) ... 
PRIDE 

PROMISES 

PROPHECY 

PROVIDENCE 

QUARREL (s) 

REASON (s) 

REBUKE 

REFORM (Character)... 

RELIGION 

REPENTANCE 

REPUTATION 

RESERVE (Character) 
RESOLUTION 

REVENGE 

REWARD 

RICHES 



RIOTS (Rebellions) 
RUMOUR (s) ... 
XX 



and Content. Descriptive of, Dressy. and Equality with 
the Rich. and Flattery. and Fortune. Friends and 
Enemies, and Hope, and the Law. and Liberty, and 
Pride, and the Rich, and Rich Villains. Safety in. Taxes. ' 
Temptation. Winter and Hardships. 

Bought. Cause, of the Dead. Descriptive of. Doubt. Due. 
Fulsome. Self, and Ugliness. Withhol ling, and Women, 
its Power. 

Denied for our Good. Descriptive of its Power, against Enemies, 
a Fault. Feigned, Retribution on. of Holy Persons. Long. 
Obdurate Disbelief. Words v. Thoughts. ... 

by a Divine Instinct, and Fears, of Good and Evil. ... 

Base, over Trifles. Cause of, Various. Descriptive of. Fall. 
Hatred of. in Others v. in Self, and the Poor, and Self- 
Praise. Universal. Willing. Women and Beauty. 

Breakers. Descriptive of, Kept. Making, v. Performance. ... 

by the Times, and Signs of. 

Descriptive of. Submission to. 

Anger v. Reason. Avoidance and Bearing. Courage in a 
Wrong. Courage in a Right. Descriptive of. Descriptive 
of Trivial. Descriptive of Unnatural. Dislike to. Among 
Friends, and Prompter. Quarrelsome People. ... ' ... 

and Actions, v. Anger, on Compulsion. Descriptive of. Des- 



Good v. Better. and Sensuality. Use 



Descriptive of In- 



criptive of Weak, 
of. v. Valour. 

Sensitive to. Unmerited. Untimely. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of Misplaced, 
tention to. Descriptive of Sudden. ... 

Contemplation, Sweet, and Enemies. Errors and Texts. Trials. 
Vows. Wisdom v. Simplicity. Words, Empty. 

Deeds, Hasty. Deeds, Persisted. Expressing. Fear, the cause of. 
for Good Actions. the Power of Mercy. a Resolution. 
Satisfaction. Urging. of Wrongs done, Unsatisfactory. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of Glory. in Danger of Losing. 
Lost, and Slander, the Value of a Good. ... 



Descriptive of. 

and Circumstances, and Doubt 
citing to. Irresolution 
Inaction. 



Expressing. Forgotten. In- 
and Memory. Thinking cause of 



in Christian and in Jew. Cowardice. Divine v. Human. Ig- 
noble. Inciting to. Insatiable, v. Kindness. Unbounded. 
Unreasonable. Vow of. 

with Prayers of Gratitude, of Virtue, not given by Time. 

v. Competency. cause of Contempt and Misery. and Death. 
Discontent. Flattery. Flattered by Learning. Fortune 
(Dame), and Friendships, a Mockery, its Glory, a Mad- 
ness. Ill-gotten. Misers, Descriptive of. Nature (Human), 
Contempt. and Poor Villains. v. Poverty and Content, 
and Poverty, Equality. Power, v. Virtue and Ability. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of Shortlived. Justifying. Rebel. 
Regretting. 



Descriptive of Exaggeration, 
of War, False.... 



180—182 
182—183 

183 

184 

184 
184—185 



185 



18;— 186 



186—187 



187—188 



188—189 

189 — 190 
190 

190— 191 

191 — 192 
192 



of Peace, False. and Slander. 



192 — 194 

194 
1 94— 19S 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



SADNESS (See also 
Melancholy) ... 

SEASONABLE (Things) 

SECRETS 

SELF— 

SERVANTS (Service) ... 



SHREWS 
SICKNESS 



SIGHTS 



SILENCE 



SIMPLICITY 
SIN 



SINNERS 

SINGING 
SLANDER 

SLANDERERS 
SLEEP ... 



SOCIETY 
SOLDIERS 

SORROW (See Grief) 
SOULS 



and Experience. Unaccountable. 

Descriptive of. 

Discovery, Anticipated. Divulging, of Kings. Knowledge of, 
Requesting, with One v. Two. and Women. 

Assertion. Deception. Preservation. Respect. Love. Love 
v. Neglect. Praise. ... 

Descriptive of Faithful. Faithful and Simple, to God v. Country. 
Good, O-ualifi cations. Honest, v. Masters. Merry. Ob- 
sequious v. Blunt. Obsequious, Descriptive of. and Pro- 
motion. Proud and Sinful. Self-Serving. Unfaithful. ... 

Defiance of. Descriptive of. Disclaiming. Fear of, Expressing. 
Tractable, Alone with men. Treatment of. 

Catching. Descriptive of, in a Crisis. Descriptive of its 
Humours. Descriptive of Prolonged. Descriptive of Slight. 
and Doctor's News. and Duties Neglected. Mind and 
Body. Remedies Prudent. Remedies Desperate. Remedies 
Hopeless. 

in Clouds, Descriptive of. Grand and Beautiful. Horrible. 
Sad, Seeing v. Hearing. Transient. Transient and In- 
substantial. Unnatural. Wonderful. 



and Admiration. Descriptive of. Descriptive of, and Conceit. 
Descriptive of, and Foolish men. Enforced, and Flattery. 
and Grief, in Happiness, in Love, and Music, v. Talking, 
Advice, and Thought, and Welcomes. ... 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of, and Truth. Truth Miscalled. ... 

and Appearance of Virtue. Bad to Worse. Conscience and Fear. 
Descriptive of. Descriptive of, of the World. Enforced, 
and Fame. Good living, a Protest. Gross Pleasures. 
Habitual. Hearing One's own. and Hypocrisy. Impu- 
dence in Denial of. Irresistible, and Mercy. not Trans- 
mitted, and Oaths, and Opportunity, and Pardon of 
Bastardy, and Poison and Treason. Privileged. Repeated, 
in Rich v. Poor. Sufferers through One person. Temptation. 
Universal. Virtue Misapplied. v. Virtue Patched. in 



Women v. Men, 



Disguising-.., 



All. and Confession of being. Degrees. Desperate. Obstinate. 
Opinions. Women and Men. Wronged. ... 

Bad. in Death. Excuses. Good, to Sleep. ... 

Descriptive of. of Fools. and Friendship. and Love. Uni- 
versal, and Virtue, and Virtue and Greatness. 

Descriptive of. Punishment. Rebuked. Sin. ... 

and Care. Death Image of. Descriptive of. Descriptive of 
Sleepy, of King and Peasant, and Labour, and Labour 
v. Idleness. Loss of. of the Rich and Poor. Somnam- 
bulism. Somnambulist. and Sorrow. Talking in. and 
the Toothache, in Trouble, Loss of. of Youth. 



Descriptive of Condition. Railers 



against. 



and the Unsociable. 



and Death, Preparation for. Descriptive of. and Generals, 
and Love. and Marriage. Pay of. and their Superiors, 
Dependence on. 



v. Body, the Brain, Habitation of. Destination. Destination, 



J 95 
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196 
196—197 

197—198 
198 — 199 



200 



200 — 202 



202 — 203 
203 — 204 



204 — 206 

206 
206 — 207 

207 
. 208 



208 — 209 
210 

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XXI 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



SOULS 

SPEECH (es) (See also 
Talk and Words) ... 



SPORT 

SPRING 

STORMS 

STORIES (Tales) 

STRUMPETS ... 
SUICIDE 



SUN (The) 



SUPERFLUITIES (And 
Surfeits) 

SUPERSTITION 

SUSPICION 

SYCOPHANTS ... 

TALENTS 

TALK (See also Speech 
and Words) ... 

TALKERS 

TASKS 

TEACHERS (And Teach- 
ing) 

TEARS (And Weeping) 



TEMPER 

TEMPTATION (See also 
Opportunity) 

THANKS 

THEFT (and Thieves)... 



Descriptive of. Destination unknown. Destruction of, 
Disclaiming, and Music, and Salvation. ... 

Bad, Descriptive of. Bold. Blunt, v. Deeds, of Dying-Men. 
Loss of. and Meaning. Persuasion and Belief. Plain. 
Reluctant News. Sharp, v. Silence. Soft, Slow, and 
Modest. Timidity, and Truth. 



Descriptive of. 
Descriptive of. 



Descriptive of, and Ladies, 
and Lovers. 



Descriptive of, 
Strange. for 



Descriptive of, on Land. Descriptive of, at Sea. 
Signs of. Sudden and Short ... 

Honest. Horrible. Interesting. of Love. 
Winter, Sad. ... 

Descriptive of. 

and Bondage. Cowardly, and Death, Fear of. Death or 
Life ? Divine Prohibition, by Drowning, and Fear of the 
Future. Folly of. its Greatness, and Life, Miserable, for 
Love. Disclaiming, and Means of, Seeking for. Resolved 
on. Sin? 

Rise, Descriptive of. Set, Descriptive of. Set, and Flowers. Set, 
and Sin. Set, and Weather. and Sin. Splendour of. 



an Universal Comfort. 



and Universal Homage. 



v. Competency, Necessaries, turn to Restraint, 
lous. of Sweets and Nausea, v. Want. 



when Ridicu- 



Descriptive of. Dreams, v. Providence 

and'Beautv. Cowardly, and Experience. Good Men free from, 
and Guilt. Justified. Quick. 

Dangerous. Descriptive of. 

Doubtful. Little, Descriptive of. and Nature. 



Descriptive of Small. Descriptive of, Verbosity- 
Pleasant. Wanton. Women in Grief. 



Perverted. 

Dismal. 



Descriptive of Great, 
lock. 

Descriptive of Difficult. 



Descriptive of, Belief in. 
Practice. 



v. Doers, in Sleep. Tedious, and Wed- 



Descriptive of Easy. 
Descriptive of False, and Precept and 



at Birth. Bitter, and Deceit, and Deceit in Men. and Deceit 
in Women. Descriptive of. Descriptive of Checked. of 
Gratitude. of Grief, Expressing, in Grief, a Relief. and 
Grief of Women, v. Joy. of Kindness, of Laughter, and 
Laughter and Lust. Men Enforced to. Men, Natural. 
Men, Resolution against. Men and Sympathy, and News, 
Sad. and Onions, and Smiles, of Sympathy, in Women 
a Gift. Men v. Women, of Women for Sympathy's sake. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of, Violent, and Forbearance. Fretful. 



Quick. 



Resenting. 



and Beauty. Descriptive of. and Disguise, and Fall, and Man, 
True. Opportunity, and Riches, and one's Self. Tempter 
v. Tempted. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of, and Tears. Expressing, In- 
ability to. Payment by. of the Poor. 

Authority. Descriptive of. Descriptive of. Descriptive of Petty, 
and Fear, and Loser in Ignorance of. Loser and Philosophy. 



211 



211— 


-212 


212 — 


-213 


21 


3 


213— 


-214 


21 


4 


214— 


-215 



215 — 216 

216 — 217 

217 
217 — 218 

218 

218 — 219 

219 

219 

219 — 220 

220 

220 221 



221 223 

223 

J 223 224 

224 



XX11 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



THEFT (and Thieves)... 

THOUGHT (s) (See also 
Imagination) ... 



TIME 



TIMES (The) ... 
TRUTH 



TYRANTS 

UGLINESS 

UNFAITHFULNESS ... 

UNKINDNESS 

USE (See also Custom) 
VALOUR (See Courage) 

VALUE 

VANITY 

VICE (See Sin) 

VIRTUE (s) 



Premature. of Reputation v. Money. and Time and 
Punishment, and Woman's Beauty v. Gold. 

Confused, Descriptive of. Dangerous. v. Deeds. Descriptive 
of Desperate. Descriptive of Headstrong. Descriptive of 
Meditation. Evil. Evil, Resisting. Fears and Suspense. 
Foolish. High-flown. Liberty of. and Life and Time. 
Love. Love, Free. Power of. Reflected and Pure. Reso- 
lutions and Actions. Sad, Descriptive of. Speaking one's, 
and Counsel. a Thinker, Descriptive of. Thoughtful. 
Wish. of Women and their Actions, and Words, v. 
Words. ... ... ... ... ... 



VOICE 



VOWS (See also Oaths) 



and Beauty. Descriptive of. Descriptive of, as Arbitrator. De- 
scriptive of, as a Bankrupt. Descriptive of, and Fashion. 
Descriptive of, and Forgetf ulness. Descriptive of, and Good. 
Descriptive of, and Justice. Descriptive of, as a Tutor. 
Effect of. End of. and Eternity. Events and the Future, 
and Lawyers in the Vacation. Long and Sad. Long 
during Suspense. Lost, and Maids and Marriage. Mis- 
spent. Past, Present and Future. Past, and Regrets, and 
the Rich and Ignorant. and Season, and Thieves and 
Punishment. Short, and Farewells. Short with Lovers. 
Short, and Pleasure. 

Degeneracy of. Democratic. Descriptive of Turbulent. De- 
scriptive of Sacred. Prophesy and Signs of. 

Asserting. Avoided. Confirmed. Descriptive of. and the Devil 
and Shame, and Dying Words. Power of. and Simplicity. 
Speaking, its Danger, and Swearing to. and Tradition. 
Unmixed. Words y. Deeds. 

Cruel. Deceit and Fear, and Government, and Strength. ... 

Descriptive of, and Dislike, and Flattery, and Unkindness. ... 

Descriptive of. 

its Deformity. Descriptive of. and Love, and Neglect. 

Base. Power of. 



Descriptive of. Descriptive of Estimation. Gifts. 
Descriptive of. 



and Ambition, and Ambition in War. Apposite Use of. As- 
sumption of. and Beauty, its Boldness. Estimate of, and the 
Times. Folly of. Friendless, and Happiness, v. Lust. 
Misapplied becomes Vice. and Necessity. Patched with 
Sin. and Past Time. v. Riches, and Vices Together 
Women Admired for. of Youth, and their Inexperience. . . . 

Gentle and Modest. Gentle, and Women. Recognition by. 
Sweet, Loss of. Sweet, Praised. 



WAR (Battles)... 



Asking 



Broken, an Excuse. Broken, a Rebuke. Descriptive 
of Insincere. Descriptive of Making. Hasty. Heedless. 
Holy. of Love, Making. of Love and the Moon. of 
Lovers. of Men to Women. by the Moon. in Passion. 
and Purpose. and Religion. Sinful, Unbinding, and 
Truth, of Women. ... .... 

Advantage v. Rashness in. Ambition in, a Virtue. Civil, Des- 
criptive of. Cries. Defence and Counsel. Descriptive of. 
End of, Peace. its Evil. Fame, a Folly. and Fellow- 
ship in Death. and Honor of Nations, and Honor and 



224 — 225 



225 — 227 



22: 



-229 



229 — 230 



230—231 
231 
231 
231 
231 
232 

232 

232 



233—234 



234 



235—236 



XXI 11 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



WAR 



WARNINGS 

WEATHER 

WELCOME (s) 

WINTER 

WIT (See also Jesters) 

WITCHCRAFT 

WIVES (See also Hus- 
bands)... 



WOMAN (Kind) 



WOMEN (Individual) ... 



WORDS (See also Talk) 



WORLD (The) 

WORMS... 
WOUNDS 

WRONG (s) 
xxiv 



Policy. Inciting Courage. Inciting Honor. Just. and 
Kings' Responsibility. Kings and Soldiers. Mercy v. 
Cruelty, against Numbers, its Rashness, v. Peace, Con- 
duct in. Preparation for. Regret, a Soldier's. Result of, 
Doubtful. Revolt. Unjust. Victory. Victory and Peace.... 

Descriptive of. 

Descriptive of, and Clouds. Descriptive of ' Cold. Sign of Fine. 
Signs of Foul. Sign of a Storm. 

and Ceremony and Fashion, and Ceremony and Friendship. 
Descriptive of. Descriptive of, and Farewells, and Meals and 
Ceremony. Silent v. Eloquent. 

Descriptive of. Descriptive of, and Story telling. 

and Audience. and Audience Unappreciative. Brevity v. 
Tediousness. Descriptive of, and Laughter. Fast. and 
Opportunity. Puns. Sharp. Witless (person), of Women. 

Descriptive of 

Angry. Corrupt (Time to), their Duty, Expressing. Duty to 
Husband. Dutiful, Neglected, and Faults, their Excuses. 
Honorable and True. v. Maids. Praise. Praise of, Lost, 
and Secrets of Husbands. Unfaithful, a Vixen, Descrip- 
tive of. 

Ambitious, in Anger and Answers. and Beauty and Pride, 
and Beauty and Knowledge of it. and Beauty and Wisdom, 
and Childbirth. Conscience and Lies. and Control of 
Passion, their Credulity, their Determination. Descriptive 
of. their Dislikes. Eyes of. their Eyes v. Judgment. 
Faults and Virtues, their Fears and Love. Fears of, Natural. 
Fitness. Flattery and Kindness, and Flattery while Wooing. 
and dame Fortune. Frailty of. Grief and Words. Incon- 
stancy of. and Kindness, its Power. Maids v. Wives, and 
Marriage. Power of. and Presents. Pride while Wooing. 
are Rash, and Reason, and Scorn, and Secrets. Silence 
a Virtue. and Sins. their Tears a Gift. Tears and 
Sympathy, their Temper, Descriptive of. Thought and 
Action. Together are Unsociable. Tongues of Jealous, 
their Vanity. their Virtue. Voice, Influence of. Voice 
Gentle, their Vows. Weakness of. Wickedness of. Will, 
Allowed.' Wit of. and Wooing. 

Accomplished. Agreeable and Gentle. Amorous. Beautiful. 
Beautiful and Gay. Beautiful and Good. Beautiful and 
Wise. Coy. Coy and Chaste. Expressionless. Fallen. 
False, Denouncing. Fat. Good. Kind and Good. Merry. 
Modest. Perfect. Plain. Proud, the Seduced v. the Seducer. 
Self-loving. Simple and Tractable. Wicked, Descriptive 
of. Widow. Witty. Witty and Vain. 

Angry, v. Blows. But and Yet. and Consolation, v. Deeds, 
of Dying Men. and Grief. Household. Idle. If. v. 
Matter. Punning on. Unheeded. Unspoken but Under- 
stood. Was and Is. Yes and No. ... 



Changes. End 
Dangers of. 



of, Descriptive of. a Stage. Troubles and 
Wickedness of. and Wretchedness. ... 



Fishing. Food, and Oppression, and Tombs. 

Boasting of. and Fame and Honor. Fatal, Descriptive of. 
Jest at Unfelt. of Love. Patience and Healing of. Self- 
inflicted. Sores and a Dog's Tongue. 

Descriptive of. and Law. 



236—238 
238 

238—239 

239—240. 
240 

240 — 241 
241 



242 — 243 



243—247 



248 — 250 

250— 25 1 

25 1 — 252 
252 

252—253 



SUBJECT. 



SUB-HEAD OR CLASSIFICATION. 



PAGE. 



YOUTH 



Accomplished, v. Age. and Ambition, and Beauty. Brave, and 
Celibacy. Council to. is Futile. Descriptive of Spirited. 
Descriptive of, Schoolboy, and Fickleness. Grave. Home- 
Keeping. Influence of Feminine. Judgment, Weak, and 
Knowledge of the Future. Lascivious. Levity of. and 
Love, and Marriage. a Melancholy. Reformed. and 
Restraint, and Sin. and Sleep. Transient, and Whiskers. 
Wild. Wise. 



253—255 



ADDENDA. 



Proverbs, Axioms, Similes, etc. 




XXV 



THE 



NEW SHAKSPERIAN DICTIONARY 



OF 



QUOTATIONS. 



CLASSIFICATION. 




PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 




ACCUSATIONS. 








GREAT MEN 


Who will believe thee? 
My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, 
My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, 
Will so your accusation overweigh, 
That you shall stifle in your own report, 
And smell of calumny. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


ii. 


4 


JUSTIFYING 


Let me see wherein 
My tongue hath wrong'd him : if it do him right, 
Then he hath wrong'd himself ; if he be free, 
Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies 
Unclaim'd of any man. 


As You. Like It. 


>» 


7 


>> 


What woman in the city do I name, 
When that I say, The city woman bears 
The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders ? 
Who can come in, and say, that I mean her ? 
When such a one as she, such is her neighbour ? 


17 »» 


»» 


n 


REGRET 


Then shall he mourn, 
(If ever love had interest in his liver,) 
And wish he had not so accused her ; 
No, though he thought his accusation true. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


IV. 


I 




ACTING. 








OVERDONE— 
TAMENESS 


Overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful 
laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure 
of which one, must in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole 
theatre of others. 


Hamlet. 


nr. 


2 


PASSION— ACTION 


Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but 
use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I 
may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire 
and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. 


ft 


>> 


>> 


PURPOSE- 
NATURE 


Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, 
whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to 
hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue 
her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age 
and body of the time, his form and pressure. 


M 


»> 


>> 


SPEECH 


Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, 
trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many 
of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my 
lines. 


iJ 


>> 


>> 


WORDS— ACTION 


Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be 
your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the 
action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not 
the modesty of nature : 


>> 


ii 


>> 


WRETCHEDNESS 
—OVERDONE ... 


I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharged, 
And duty in his sendee perishing. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


V. 


I 



CLASSIFICATION. 



ACTORS. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



BAD— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF... 



>> >> 



CLOWNS 



CONCEITED 



DULL 

GOOD— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF... 



MANKIND... 



ONIONS— BREATH 



PRAISE 



j? » 



» V 



ACTORS. 

O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig- 
pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split 
the ears of the groundlings ; who, for the most part, are 
capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews, and 
noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing 
Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. 

There be players, that I have seen play, — and heard 
others praise, and that highly, — not to speak it profanely, 
that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait 
of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and 
bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journey- 
men had made men, and not made them well, they imitated 
humanity so abominably. 

He hath rid his prologue, like a rough colt ; he knows 
not the stop. 

He hath played on this prologue, like a child on a 
recorder, — a sound, but not in government. 

Let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is 
set down for them : for there be of them, that will them- 
selves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators 
to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary 
question of the play be then to be considered : that's 
villainous ; and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool 
that uses it. 

A strutting player, — whose conceit 
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich 
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 
'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage. 

Like a dull actor now, 
I have forgot my part, 

In a theatre, the eyes of men, 
After a well graced actor leaves the stage, 
Are idly bent on him that enters next, 
Thinking his prattle to be tedious. 

All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players : 
They have their exits, and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts, 
His acts being seven ages. 

And, most dear actors, eat no onions, nor garlick, for 
we are to utter sweet breath ; and I do not doubt, but to 
hear them say, it is a sweet comedy. 

The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, 
history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, 
tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, 
scene individable, or poem unlimited : Seneca cannot be 
too heavy, nor Plautus too light. 

He would drown the stage with tears, 
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech ; 
Make mad the guilty, and appal the free, 
Confound the ignorant ; and amaze, indeed, 
The very faculties of eyes and ears. 

For the law of writ, and the liberty, these are the only 
men. 



Hamlet. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Hamlet. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Coriolanus. 
Richard II. 



in. 



ii. 



As You Like It. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Hamlet. 



ii. 



IV. 



ii. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



ACTION. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



TIMES 

TRAGEDIAN- 
DESCRIPTIVE OF 



CAREFUL ... 



CONTINUAL- 
PROTEST 

FUTILE ... 



GRACEFUL- 
PRAISE ... 



>> » 



GREAT— IMPEDI- 
MENTS ... 



INACTION., 

7> 



PRIDE 



INCITING ... 
INDISCREET 



MISINTERPRETED 



They are the abstract, and brief chronicles of the time 

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian ; 
Speak, and look back, and pry on every side, 
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, 
Intending deep suspicion : 



ACTION (see also deeds). 

Things done well, 
And with a care, exempt themselves from fear: 
Things done without example, in their issue 
Are to be fear'd. 

I were better to be eaten to death with rust, than to be 
scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. 

Every action, that hath gone before, 
Whereof we have record, trial did draw 
Bias and thwart, not answering the aim, 
And that unbodied figure of the thought, 
That gave't surmised shape. 

Each your doing, 
So singular in each particular, 
Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, 
That all your acts are queens. 

What you do, 
Still betters what is done. 

Checks and disasters 
Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ; 
As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, 
Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain 
Tortive and errant from his course of growth. 

Things in motion sooner catch the eye, 
Than what not stirs. 

The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break. 

O, then we bring forth weeds, 
When our quick minds lie still ; and our ills told us, 
Is as our earing. 

O heavens, what some men do, 
While some men leave to do ! 
How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall, 
While others play the idiots in her eyes ! 
How one man eats into another's pride, 
While pride is fasting in his wantonness ! 

Be great in act as you have been in thought ; 

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate, and furious, 
Loyal and neutral, in a moment ? 

Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, 
When our deep plots do pall ; 

What we oft do best, 
By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is 
Not ours, or not allow'd ; what worst, as oft, 
Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up 
For our best act. 



Hamlet. 



Richard III. 



Henry Fill. 
Henry IF. Pt. 2 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Winter* 's Tale 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

King John. 

Macbeth. 

Hamlet. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



» >> >> 



in. 



in. 

V. 



II. 



V. 



Henry Fill. 



CLASSIFICATION. 


ACTION— (Continued^) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


NECESSARY 


We must not stint 
Our necessary actions, in the fear 
To cope malicious censurers ; 


Henry VIII. 


11 


11 


>> 


No man is the lord of anything - , 
(Though in and of him there be much consisting,) 
Till he communicate his parts to others : 
Nor doth he of himself know them for aught, 
Till he behold them form'd in the applause, 
Where they are extended ; which, like an arch, reverberates 
The voice again ; or, like a gate of steel, 
Fronting the sun, receives and renders back 
His figure and his heat. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


3 


QUICK 


If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well 
It were done quickly : 


Macbeth. 


I. 


7 


FRIENDS- 
SUCCESS 


ADVICE. 

They that thrive well, take counsel of their friends: 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






FUTILE— RAGE ... 


Counsel may stop awhile what will not stay ; 
For when we rage, advice is often seen 
By blunting us to make our wits more keen. 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






„ WILFUL- 
NESS... 


All too late comes counsel to be heard, 
Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard. 


Richard 11. 


II. 


1 


» n 


Direct not him whose way himself will choose : 


ii ii 






OTHERS— SELF ... 


Thou speak'st like a physician, 
Who minister'st a potion unto me, 
That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself. 


Pericles. 


11 
I. 


11 
2 


n n 


I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, 
than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


11 


ir 




AGE (OLD, &c). 








BEAUTY— POWER 


Beauty doth varnish age, as if new born, 
And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


3 


COVETOUSNESS... 


A man can no more separate age and covetousness, 
than he can part young limbs and lechery : 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


I. 


4 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


I am declined 
Into the vale of years ; — 


Othello. 


III. 


3 


r* 


Second childishness, and mere oblivion ; 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. 


As You Like It. 


II. 


7 


n 


In me thou seest the twilight of such day 
As after sunset fadeth in the west ; 

Which by and by black night doth take away, 
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. 


Sonnet 73. 






n 


In me thou seest the glowing of such fire, 
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie ; 

As the death-bed whereon it must expire, 

Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. 


11 11 






11 


That time of year thou may'st in me behold, 
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang 

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, 
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. 


11 11 







CLASSIFICATION. 



AGE — (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



VOICE 



FOLLY 

FOLLY— CHILD- 
ISHNESS 

GRAVITY— BE- 
COMING 



HEARTY... 



INCONSIDERATE 



INGRATITUDE 



JUDGMENT— BAD 



LOVE 

MIDDLE AGE- 
LOVE 

NEGLECTED 

„ GREATNESS 



My May of life 
Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf: 

Good old chronicle, 
Thou hast so long walked hand in hand with time : — 

Though now this grained face of mine be hid 
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, 
And all the conduits of my blood froze up : 
Yet hath my night of life some memory, 
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, 

You are as a candle, the better part burnt out. 

Lean and slippered pantaloon ; 
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; 
His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide 
For his shrunk shank : 

His big manly voice, 
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes 
And whistles in his sound : 

Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been 
wise. 

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, 
It does from childishness : 

Youth no less becomes 
The light and careless livery that it wears, 
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, 
Importing health and graveness. 

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty : 
For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood : 
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 
The means of weakness and debility ; 
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
Frosty, but kindly : 

You, that are old, consider not the capacities of us that 
are young : you measure the heat of our livers with the 
bitterness of your galls : 

These old fellows 
Have their"ingratitude in them hereditary : 
Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows ; 
'Tis lack of kindly warmth, they are not kind ; 
And nature, as it grows again toward earth, 
Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy. — 

It seems, it is as proper to our age 
To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions, 
As it is common for the younger sort 
To lack discretion. 

The heavens forbid, 
But that our loves and comforts should increase, 
Even as our days do grow ! 

Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing ; nor so 
old to dote on her for anything ; 

Unregarded age in corners thrown ; 

I have lived long enough : my May of life 
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf : 
And that which should accompany old age, 
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 



Macbeth. 

Troilus and 

Cressida. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 

HenryVl.Pt.2, 



As You Like It. 



>> it 



King Lear. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Hamlet. 



IV. 



li. 



IV. 



As You Like It. 



Henry IV. Pt. 2. 



Timon of 
Athens. 



Hamlet. 



Othello. 



King Lear. 
As You Like It. 



11. 



11. 



11. 



1. 
11. 



4 
3 



CLASSIFICATION. 


AGE — (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


NEGLECTED 

GREATNESS ... 


I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, 
Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, 
Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not. 


Macbeth. 


V. 


3 


POWERLESS— 
AGAINST BEAUTY 


Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variety : 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


2 


PRIME 


Time hath not scythed all that youth begun, 
Nor youth all quit ; 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






PROVIDENCE ... 


He that doth the ravens feed, 
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age ! 


As You Like It. 


II. 


3 


SECOND CHILD- 
HOOD 


They say an old man is twice a child. 


Hamlet. 


>> 


2 


SIGNS 


Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that 
are written down old with all the characters of age ? 
Have you not a moist eye ? a dry hand ? a yellow cheek ? 
a white beard ? a decreasing leg ? an increasing belly ? 
Is not your voice broken ? your wind short ? your chin 
double ? your wit single ? and every part about you 
blasted with antiquity ? and will you yet call yourself 
young ? 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


I. 


2 


TEMPER 


The unruly waywardness that infim and choleric years 
bring with them. 


King Lear. 


>> 


I 


WISDOM 


Respect and reason wait on wrinkled age ! 
Sad pause and deep regard beseem the sage : 


Tarquin. 






WITLESS 

YOUTH 


When the age is in, the wit is out : 

Youth is full of sport, 
Age's breath is short, 

Youth is nimble, age is lame ; 
Youth is hot and bold, 
Age is weak and cold ; 

Youth is wild, and age is tame. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 

Passionate Pil- 
grim. 


III. 

verse 


5 

5 ih 


,, 


Let me not live, 
After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff 
Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses 
All but new things disdain ; whose judgments are 
Mere fathers of their garments ; whose constancies 
Expire before their fashions : — 


AWsTJ'ellThat 
Ends Well. 


i. 


2 


YOUTH— MAR- 
RIAGE 


Crabbed age and youth 

Cannot live together ; 
Youth is full of pleasance, 

Age is full of care : 
Youth like summer morn, 

Age like winter weather ; 
Youth like summer brave, 

Age like winter bare. 


Passionate Pil- 
grim. 


verse 


5 th 




AMBITION. 




DANGEROUS- 
SOLDIERS 


Who does i' the wars more than his captain can, 
Becomes his captain's captain : and ambition, 
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, 
Than gain, which darkens him. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


in. 


I 


DEATH 


Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! 
When that this body did contain a spirit, 
A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; 
But now, two paces of the vilest earth 
Is room enough. 


Henry TV. Pt. i. 


v. 


4 



CLASSIFICATION. 


AMBITION— (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DREAM 


The very substance of the ambitious is merely the 
shadow of a dream. 


Hamlet. 


II. 


2 


FAME— WAR 


Spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, 
Makes mouths at the invisible event ; 
Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, 
To all that fortune, death, and danger, dare 
Even for an egg-shell. 


M 


IV. 


4 


HUMILITY 


'Tis a common proof, 
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber upward turns his face : 
But when he once attains the upmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
By which he did ascend : 


Julius Caesar. 


II. 


1 


MEEKNESS- 
PRIESTS 


Love and meekness 
Become a churchman better than ambition ; 


Henry VIII. 


V. 


2 


PRIDE— FALL ... 


Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps its selle, 
And falls on the other — 


Macbeth. 


I. 


7 


SHADOW 


. I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is 
but a shadow's shadow. 


Hamlet. 


ir. 


2 


SIN 


Fling away ambition : 
By that sin fell the angels, how can majuth-cn-, — 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by't ? 


Henry VIII. 


in. 


>i 


STERN 


Ambition should be made of sterner stuff : 


Julius Cazsar. 


>> 


>> 


THOUGHTS 


'Tis but a base ignoble mind, 
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 


Henry VI.Pt.2. 


11. 


1 


>> 


Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts : 


>> it 


1. 


2 


>> 


I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a 
king of infinite space ; 


Hamlet. 


11. 


>> 


YOUTH 


O foolish youth ! 
Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


IV. 


4 




ANGER. 








CONTROL 


I have a heart as little apt as yours, 

But yet a brain that leads my use of anger, 

To better vantage. 


Coriolanus 


III. 


2 


COURAGE 


To be furious, 
Is, to be frighted out of fear : and, in that mood, 
The dove will peck the estridge. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


III. 


11 


DISREGARDED ... 


Anger is like 
A full hot horse; who being allow'd his way, 
Self-mettle tires him. 


Henry VIII. 


I. 


1 


EXPRESSIONS ... 


By the worth of mine eternal soul, 
Thou hadrt been better have been born a dog, 
Than answer my waked wrath. 


Othello. 


III. 


3 


>> 


Could I come near your beauty with my nails, 
I'd set my ten commandments in your face. 


HenryVI.lt. 2. 


I. 


j> 


>> 


O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, 
And braggart with my tongue ! 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


3 


FOLLY 


Never anger 
Made good guard for itself. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


>> 


1 



CLASSIFICATION. 



ANGER— (Continued) . 



PLAY OK POEM. ACT. SC. 



LOSERS— PRIVI- 
LEGE ... 

PRIVILEGE 

REBUKE ... 



SIN 

TAMENESS— 
WRONGS 



UNWISE— FOES . 

WOMAN— UNBE- 
COMING 



WISDOM— PEACE 



DECEPTIVE 



Losers will have leave 
To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues. 

Anger hath a privilege. 

Out, you mad headed ape ! 
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen, 
As you are toss'd with. 

Why, what a wasp -stung and impatient fool 
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood; 
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own ? 

Thy tears are womanish ; thy wild acts denote 
The unreasonable fury of a beast : 
Unseemly woman, in a seeming man ! 
Or ill-beseeming beast, in seeming both ! 

Is your blood 
So madly hot that no discourse of reason, 
Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause, 
Can qualify the same ? 

To be in anger, is impiety ; 

But who is man, that is not angry ? 

Ye gods, fool me not so much 
To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble anger! 
O, let not women's weapons, water-drops, 
Stain my man's cheeks ! 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot, 
That it do singe yourself. 

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty; 
And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty 
Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it. 

Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion sway 
In this uncivil and unjust extent 
Against thy peace. 



APPEARANCE (see also dress), 

On the finger of a throned queen 
The basest jewel will be well esteem'd: 

All hoods make not monks. 

Men should be what they seem ; 
Or, those that be not, would they might seem none : 

No more can you distinguish of a man, 

Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, 

Seldom, or never, jumpeth with the heart. 

All that glisters is not gold ; 

Was ever book, containing such vile matter, 
So fairly bound ? 

O, that deceit should dwell 
In such a gorgeous palace ! 

O nature ! what hadst thou to do in hell, 
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend 
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh ? 



Titus 

Andronicus. 

King Lear. 



>> >> 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



King Lear. 
Henry VIII. 



Taming of the 
Shrew 



Twelfth Night, 



Sonnet 96. 
Henry VIII. 

Othello. 

Richard III. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



in. 
11. 



Henry IV.Pt.i. „ 



HI. 



II. 



III. 



II. 



IV. [ 



III. 



III. 



II. 



III. 



, III. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



APPEARANCE— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DECEPTIVE 



DRESS .. 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 
DRESS 

„ RICH— POOR 

FACES— HEARTS 

JUDGING— 

WRONG ., 

MISJUDGED— 

REGRET 

„ REBUKE 

PRAISE ... 
RECOGNITION . 



NATURE 



SCULPTURE- 
PRAISE 



SUBJECTION- 
AUTHORITY 



O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face ! 
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave ? 
Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical ! 
Dove-feather' d raven ! wolvish-ravening lamb ! 
Despised substance of divinest shew ! 
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, 
A damnedsa.int T an hono urable villain ! — 

I will never trust a man again, for keeping his sword 
clean ; nor believe he can have everything in him, by 
wearing his apparel neatly. 

He hath a person, and a smooth dispose, 

To be suspected ; framed to make women false. 

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 

But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 

For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich ; 
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 

He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart : 

Is the jay more precious than the lark, 
Because his feathers are more beautiful ? 
Or is the adder better than the eel, 
Because his painted skin contents the eye? 

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan 
The outward habit by the inward man. 

Forgive the comment, that my passion made 
Upon thy feature; for my rage was blind, 

You have slander'd nature in my form ; 
Which howsoever rude exteriorly, 
Is yet the cover of a fairer mind 

Thou seem'st a palace 

For the crown' d Truth to dwell in : 

If that an eye may profit by a tongue, 
Then I should know you by description. 

I ken the manner of his gait ; 
He rises on the toe : that spirit of his 
In aspiration lifts him from the earth. 



ART. 



Nature is made better by no mean, 
But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art, 
Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art 
That nature makes. 

The fixure of her eye has motion in't, 
As we are mock'd with art. 

Prepare 
To see the life as lively mock'd, as ever 
Still sleep mock'd death ; 

Art made tongue-tied by authority, 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

AlVsWellThat 
Ends Well. 

Othello. 



Hamlet. 

Taming of the 
Shrew. 

King John. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Pericles. 



King John. 



in. 



IV. 



IV. 



ii. 



IV. 



Pericles. 



As You Like It. iv. 3 



I Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Winter's Tale, iv 



>> >> 



Sonnet 66. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



ARTISTS. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





ARTISTS. 








SCULPTOR- 
PRAISE 


Had he himself eternity, and could put breath into his 
work, would beguile nature of her custom, so perfectly he 
is her ape : i 


Winter's Tale. 


v. 


2 


TALENT— GENIUS 


In framing artists, art hath thus decreed, 
To make some good, but others to exceed, 


Pericles. 


ii. 


3 




AUTHORITY. 








AWE 


O place ! form ! 
How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, 
Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls 
To thy false seeming ? 


Measure for 
Measure. 


ii. 


4 


CORRUPTED— 

PUNISHMENT 


The name of Cassius honours this corruption, 
And chastisement doth therefore hide his head. 


jfulius Coesar. 


IV. 


3 


ERRORS— PRIVI- 
LEGE 


Authority, though it err like others, 
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, 
That skins the vice o' the top : 


Measure for 
Measure. 


ii. 


2 


GOLD— INFLU- 
ENCE 


Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led 
by the nose with gold : 


Winter'' s Tale. 


IV. 


3 


INSUBORDINA- 
TION 


Degree being vizarded, 
The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


i. 


» 


„ ARMY 


The general's disdain'd 
By him one step below; he, by the next; 
That next, by him beneath ; so every step, 
Exampled by the first pace, that is sick 
Of his superior, grows to an envious fever 
Of pale and bloodless emulation : 


» 


>> 


>> 


EVIL 


Take but degree away, untune that string, 

And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets 










In mere oppugnancy : 


» 


>> 


>> 


» >> 


Everything includes itself in power, 
Power into will, will into appetite ; 
And appetite, an universal wolf, 
So doubly seconded with will and power, 
Must make perforce an universal prey, 
And, last, eat up himself. 


n 


>> 


» 


» 3> 


O, when degree is shaked, 
Which is the ladder of all high designs, 
The enterprise is sick ! 


>> 


>> 


?> 


Jt J> 


How could communities, 
Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, 
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, 
The primogenitive and due of birth, 
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, 
But by degree, stand in authentic place ? 


>» 


>> 


>t 


POWER 


Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? 

And the creature run from the cur ? 
There thou mightest behold the great image of authority ; 

a dog's obeyed in office. — 


King Lear. 


IV. 


6 



IO 



CLASSIFICATION. 




AUTHORITY— (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


PRIDE 


Man, proud man! 
Drest in a little brief authority, 
Most ignorant of what he's most assured, 
His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, 
As make the angels weep ; 


Measure for 
Measure. 


II. 


2 


QUARRELS 


When two authorities are up, 
Neither supreme, how soon confusion 
May enter 'twixt the gap of both, and take 
The one by the other. 


Coriolanus. 


III. 


I 


WRESTED 


Vast confusion waits, 
As doth a raven on a sick-fall'n beast, 
The imminent decay of wrested pomp. 


King "John. 


IV. 


3 


UNJUST 


Thus can the demi-god authority, 
Make us pay down for our offence by weight. — 
The words of Heaven, — on whom it will, it will ; 
On whom it will not, so ; yet still 'tis just. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


I. 


3 


,, 




O perilous mouths, 
That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, 
Either of condemnation or approof ! 
Bidding the law make court' sy to their will ; 
Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, 
To follow as it draws ! 


n 


II. 


4 




BEAUTY. 








AGE 

ART 


Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age. 

Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd ; 
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay ; 
But best is best, if never intermix'd ? 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 

Sojinet 101. 






n 


Since each hand hath put on nature's power, 
Fairing the foul with art's false-borrow'd face, 

Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower, 
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace. 


„ 127. 






,, 


When beauty lived and died, as flowers do now, 
Before these bastard signs of fair were borne, 

Or durst inhabit on a living brow ; 
Before the golden tresses of the dead, 

The right of sepulchres, were shorn away, 
To live a second life on second head : 


„ 68. 






BLUSHES— PALE- 
NESS 


A sudden pale, 
Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose, 
Usurps her cheek : 


Venus and 

Adonis. 






» » 


If she be made of white and red, 

Her faults will ne'er be known ; 
For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, 

And fears by pale white shewn : 
Then, if she fear, or be to blame, 

By this you shall not know ; 
For still her cheeks possess the same, 

Which native she doth owe. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


I. 


2 


CHILDREN- 
PARENTS 




Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee 
Calls back the lovely April of her prime : 


Somiet 3. 







II 



CLASSIFICATION. 



BEAUTY— (Continued). 



DEATH 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



ANGER 

COLOR 

EYE- 
BROWS 

MANLY 



VIRGINAL 



VOICE 



DIMPLES 



Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, 
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : 
Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet 
Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks, 
And death's pale flag is not advanced there. — 

Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear : 

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear ! 
So shews a snowy dove trooping with crows, 
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shews. 

Had Narcissus seen her as she stood, 
Self-love had never drown' d him in the flood. 

See, where she comes, apparell'd like the spring. 
Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king 
Of every virtue gives renown to men ! 
Her face, the book of praises, where is read 
Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence 
Sorrow were ever rased, and testy wrath 
Could never be her mild companion. 

O thou weed, 
Who art so lovely fair, and smell' st so sweet, 
That the sense aches at thee. — 

What peremptory eagle sighted eye 
Dares look upon the heaven of her brow, 
That is not blinded by her majesty ? 

The fairest hand I ever touch'd ! O beauty, 
Till now I never knew thee. 

True-sweet beauty lived and died with him. 

O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful 
In the contempt and anger of his lip ! 

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on : 

Black brows, they say. 
Become some women best ; so that there be not 
Too much hair there, but in a semi-circle, 
Or half-moon made with a pen. 

See, what a grace was seated on this brow : 
Hyperion's curls ; the front of Jove himself ; 
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; 
A station like the herald Mercury 
New-lighted on a heaven -kissing hill ; 
A combination, and a form, indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To give the world assurance of a man : 

Her breasts, like ivory globes circled with blue, 
A pair of maiden worlds unconquered, 

In pace another Juno ; 
Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry, 
The more she gives them speech. — 

In each cheek appears a pretty dimple ; 
Love made those hollows, if himself were slain, 

He might be buried in a tomb so simple : 
Fore-knowing well, if there he came to lie, 
Why there Love lived, and there he could not die. 

These lovely caves, these round enchanting pits, 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Tarquin. 



Pericles. 



Othello. 



i. 



IV. 



Love'sLaloio-'s 
Lost. 



Henry Fill. i 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

Twelfth Night, in. 



7) >> 



I. 



Winter's Tale. n. 



Hamlet. 



Tarquin. 



Pericles. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



in. 



v. 



12 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FAULTS 



BEAUTY— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



FLATTERY 

FOLLY 
GOODNESS 



GRIEF— EFFECT 
HIDDEN ... 

KINDNESS 
LOSS— AGE 

EVER 



PORTRAIT 



POWER 



The curious workmanship of nature; 
To mingle beauty with infirmities, 

And pure perfection with impure defeature : 
Making it subject to the tyranny 
Of mad mischances, and much misery; 

My beauty, though but mean, 
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; 
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye 
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues : 

Her beauty and her brain go not together. She's a good 
sign, but I have seen small reflection of her wit. 

Within whose face beauty and virtue strived 

Which of them both should underprop her fame; 
When virtue bragg'd beauty would blush for shame; 
When beauty boasted blushes, in despite 
Virtue would stain that o'er with silver white. 

Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st 
Modest as justice, and thou seem'st a palace 
For the crown'd truth to dwell in : 

The hand that hath made you fair, hath made you 
good : the goodness, that is cheap in beauty, makes beauty 
brief in goodness ; but grace, being the soul of your com- 
plexion, should keep the body of it ever fair. 

She is fair, and, fairer than that word, 
Of wond'rous virtues; 

Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give I 

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 
For that sweet odour which doth in it live. 

Grief, that's beauty's canker, 

These black masks 
Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder 
Than beauty could displayed.— 

Beauty lives with kindness. 

Hath homely age the alluring beauty took 
From my poor cheek ? 

As goods lost are seld or never found, 

As faded gloss no rubbing will refresh, 
As flowers dead, lie wither'd on the ground, 

As broken glass no cement can redress, 
So beauty blemish' d once, for ever's lost, 
In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. 

Here are sever' d lips, 
Parted with sugar breath ; so sweet a bar 
Should sunder such sweet friends : Here in her hairs 
The painter plays the spider ; and hath woven 
A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men, 
Faster than gnats in cobwebs : But her eyes, — 
How could he see to do them ? Having made one, 
Methinks, it should have power to steal both his, 
And leave itself unfurnish'd : 

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade 
The eyes of men without an orator ; 

All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth ; 



Fen us and 
Adonis. 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 



ii. 



Cym l-eline. 



Tarquin. 



Pericles. 



Measure for 
Measure. 

Merchant of 
Venice, 



Sonnet 54. 
Tempest. 

Measure for 
Measure. 

i 'Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



Fassionaie 
Pilgrim. 



in. 



1. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Tarquin. 



11. 



IV. 



IK 



verse 



10 



111. 



J 3 



CLASSIFICATION. 



BEAUTY— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR, POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



POWER ... 



>> 



PRAISE 



PRIDE 

SENSE 



SICKNESS... 



A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn, 
Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye : 
Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, 
And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. 

Beauty is a witch, 
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. 

Thy beauty hath made me effeminate, 
And in my temper soften' d valour's steel. 

The power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from 
what it is to a bawd, than the force of honesty can trans- 
late beauty into his likeness ; 

Beauty's princely majesty is such, 
Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough. 

balmy breath, that dost almost persuade 
Justice to break her sword ! — 

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 

1 never sued to friend nor enemy ; 

My tongue could never learn sweet soothing word ; 

But now thy beauty is proposed my fee, 

My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak. 

You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate ; there is more 
eloquence in a sugar touch of them, than in the tongues 
of the French Council. 

From the four corners of the earth they come, 
To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing saint. 

The Hyrcanian deserts, and the vasty wilds 

Of wild Arabia, are as through-fares now, 

For princes to come view fair Portia : 

The wat'ry kingdom, whose ambitious head 

Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar 

To stop the foreign spirits ; but they come, 

As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia. 

If I could write the beauty of your eyes, 

And in fresh numbers number all your graces, 

The age to come would say, this poet lies, 

Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces. 

Shew me a mistress, that is passing fair, 
What doth her beauty serve, but as a note, 
Where I may read, who pass'd that passing fair? 

'Tis beauty, that doth oft make women proud ; 

The beauty that is borne here in the face, 
The bearer knows not, but commends itself 
To others' eyes : nor doth the eye itself 
(That most pure spirit of sense,) behold itself, 
Not going from itself ; but eye to eye opposed 
Salutes each other with each other's form. 
For speculation turns not to itself, 
Till it hath travell'd, and is mirror' d there, 
Where it may see itself ; 

Not the least of all these maladies, 

But in one minute's fight brings beauty under : 
Both favour, savour, hue, and qualities, 

Whereat the impartial gazer late did wonder, 
Are on the sudden wasted, thaw'd, and done, 
As mountain snow melts with the mid-day sun. 



Love's Labour's 




Lost. 


IV. 


Much Ado 




About Nothing. 


ii. 


Romeo. 


in. 


Hamlet. 


n 


Henry VI. Pt. I . 


V. 


Othello. 


V. 


As You Like It. 


I. 


Richard III. 


I. 






Henry V. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



Merchant <-f 
Venice. 



Sonnet i). 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Henry VI.Pt.3. 



11. 



11. 



n. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



in. 



1 

4 



14 



CLASSIFICATION. 



BEAUTY— CContinuedJ . 



PLAT OB, POEM. ACT. SC. 



SLANDER 


Slander's mark was ever yet the fair ; 
The ornament of beauty is suspect, 

A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. 


Sonnet 70. 






TEMPTATION ... 


Honour and beauty, in the owner's arms, 
Are weakly fortress'd from a world of harms. 


Tarquin. 






TIME— EFFECT ... 


Those hours, that with gentle work did frame 
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, 

Will play the tyrants to the very same, 
And that unfair, which fairly doth excel, 

For never -resting time leads summer on 

To hideous winter and confounds him there, 


Sonnet 5. 






OPPORTU- 
NITY 


Make use of time, let not advantage slip ; 

Beauty within itself should not be wasted : 
Fair flowers that are not gather' d in their prime, 
Rot and consume themselves in little time. 




Venus and 
Adonis. 






» » 


When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, 
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, 

Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, 
Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held. 


Sonnet 2. 






TRANSIENT 


Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. 


„ 18. 






» 


Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, 
A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly; 

A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud, 
A brittle glass that's broken presently ; 

A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, 

Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. 


Passionate 
Pilgrim. 


verse 


10 


VIRTUE 


Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous-evil 
Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil. 


Twelfth Night. 


in. 


4 


WICKEDNESS ... 


Mine eyes 
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful ; 
Mine ears, that heard her flattery ; nor my heart, 
That thought her like her seeming ; it had been vicious 
To have mistrusted her : 


Cymbeline. 


v. 


5 


>> 


Since, the more fair and crystal is the sky, 
The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. 


Richard 11. 


1. 


1 


,, 


None can be call'd deform'd, but the unkind : 
Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous -evil 
Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil. 


Twelfth Night. 


in. 


4 


>> 


Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, 
Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds. 


Sonnet 94. 






^ 


The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, 
Though to itself it only live and die ; 

But if that flower with base infection meet, 
The basest weed outbraves his dignity: 


>> >> 






» 


Look on beauty, 
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight ; 
Which therein works a miracle in nature, 
Making them lightest that wear most of it : I 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


in. 


2 


WISDOM 


Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful. 


1 


Midsummer 










Night s Dream 


1 




BIRDS. 








IMPRISONED 


After many moody thoughts, 
At last, by notes of household harmony, 
They quite forget their loss of liberty. — 




Henry Vl.Pt.j,. 


IV. 


6 



15 



CLASSIFICATION. 



BIRDS— CCmtinued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



LARK 



if 



SINGING ... 



SWALLOW 



ASKING 



DOUBLE ... 
MOTHER ... 

PRONOUNCING 



Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings. 

The lark at break of day arising from sullen earth 
Sings hymns at heaven's gate : 

Lo ! here the gentle lark, weary of rest, 

From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, 

And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast 
The sun ariseth in his majesty ; 

Who doth the world so gloriously behold, 

That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish' d gold. 

The lark, the herald of the morn. 

The lark, whose notes do beat 
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads : 

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, 
When neither is attended ; and, I think, 
The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every goose is cackling, would be thought 
No better a musician than the wren. 

This guest of summer, 
The temple-haunting martlet does approve 
By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath 
Smells wooingly here ; no jutty frieze, buttress, 
No coigne of vantage, but this bird hath made 
His pendant bed, and procreant cradle : Where they 
Most breed and haunt, I have observed, the air 
Is delicate. 



BLESSING. 

So smile the heavens upon this holy act, 
That after -hours with sorrow chide us not ! 

To thee I do commend my watchful soul, 
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes ; 
Sleeping, and waking, O, defend me still 1 

A double blessing is a double grace : 

Make me die a good old man ! — 
That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing : 

Quiet consummation have : 
And renowned be thy grave ! 

The benediction of these covering heavens 

Fall on their heads like dew ! for they are worthy 

To inlay heaven with stars. 

Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom 
Of good old Abraham !■ — 

Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven ! 
Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, 
But not remember' d in thy epitaph ! 

May he continue 
Long in his highness' favour, and do justice 
For truth's sake, and his conscience; that his bones, 
When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings, 
May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em I 

Happy man be his dole ! — 



Cymbeline. 
Sonnet 29. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Macbeth. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Richard III. 
Hamlet. 



Cymbeline. 



Richard II. 



Henry IV.Pt.i. 



Henry VIII. 
U Inter'' s Tale. 



Richard III. 11 



11. 



in. 



11. 

v. 
1. 



IV. 



V. 



IV. 



III. 
I. 



16 



CLASSIFICATION. 



BLOOD. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



TAINTED- 
UNTAINTED 



AFFECTED 



CIVILITY .., 



ELOQUENCE 
FAULT 



SPEECH 
STORIES 



COURAGE.., 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



BLOOD. 

Corrupted blood some watery token shews, 
And blood untainted still doth red abide. 



BLUNTNESS. 

This is some fellow, 
Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect 
A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb, 
Quite from his nature: 

These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness 
Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends, 
Than twenty silly ducking observants, 
That stretch their duties nicely. 

Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence. 

You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault : 

Though sometimes it shows greatness, courage, blood, 

(And that's the dearest grace it renders you,) 

Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage, 

Defect of manners, want of government, 

Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain; 

The least of which, haunting a nobleman, 

Loseth men's hearts; and leaves behind a stain 

Upon the beauty of all parts besides, 

Beguiling them of commendation. 

Rude am I in my speech, 
And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace : 

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. 



Tarquin. 



King Lear, 



BOASTERS. 

It comes to pass oft, that a terrible oath, with a swag- 
gering accent sharply twanged off - , gives manhood more 
approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. 

Such fellows are perfect in great commanders' names : 
and they will learn you by rote, where services are done; 
at such and^; such a sconce, at such a breach, at such a 
convoy; who came off bravely, who was shot, who dis- 
graced, what terms the enemy stood on : and this they con 
perfectly in the phrase of war, which they trick up with 
new-tuned oaths : And what a beard of the general's cut, 
and a horrid suit of the camp, will do among foaming 
bottles, and ale-wash' d wits, is wonderful to be thought on ; 
but you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or 
else you may be marvellous mistook. 

The man, that once did sell the lion's skin 

While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. 

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. 

Here's a large mouth, indeed, 
That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks, and seas : 
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, 
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs ! 



Merchant of 
Venice, 



Henry IF.Pt.i 

Othello. 
Richard HI. 



Twelfth Night 



Henry V, 



King John. 



ii. 



in. 



i. 

IV. 



3 

4 



in. 



IV. 



ii. 



17 



CLASSIFICATION. 



BOASTERS— CContinued). 



PLAY OR P0E3I. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



EXPOSURE 



REBUKE 



FOUL 
ONIONS 

SWEET 



What cannoneer begot this lusty blood ! 

He speaks plain cannon, fire, and smoke, and bounce ; 

He gives the bastinado with his tongue ; 

Is not this a strange fellow, my lord ? that so confidently 
seems to undertake this business, which he knows is not to 
be done ; damns himself to do, and dares better be damned 
than to do't. 

Who knows himself a braggart, 
Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass, 
That every braggart shall be found an ass. 

Have not I 
An arm as big as thine ? a heart as big ? 
Thy words, I grant, are bigger; for I wear not 
My dagger in my mouth. 

O, sir, to such as boasting show their scars, 
A mock is due. 



INDIFFERENCE 

LOVE 

NIGHT 



URGING— COM- 

MENCEMENT 

URGENT ... 



BREATH. 

She is not to be kissed fasting, in respect of her breath. 

Eat no onions, nor garlick, for we are to utter sweet 
breath ; 

'Tis her breathing that 
Perfumes the chamber thus. 

O balmy breath, that doth almost persuade 
Justice to break her sword ! 

I saw her coral lips to move, 
And with her breath she did perfume the air : 

Lips, 
Parted with sugar breath ; so sweet a bar 
Should sunder such sweet friends : 



BUSINESS. 



You smell this business with a sense as cold 
As is a dead man's nose : 

To business that we love, we rise betime^ 
And go to it with delight, 

Affairs, that walk 
(As, they say, spirits do) at midnight, have 
In them a wilder nature, than the business 
That seeks despatch by day. 

Leave thy damnable faces, and begin 

I have important business, 
The tide whereof is now. — 



King John. 



All's Well That 
Ends Well. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



Cymbeline. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Cymleline. 



Othello. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Henry Fill. 

Hamlet. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Tico Gentlemen 
of Verona. I in 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



n. 



Taming of the 
Shreic. I. 



Winter's Tale, 

Antony and 

Cleopatra. tv. 



in. 



v. 



in. 



V. 



18 






CLASSIFICATION. 



CARE. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





CARE. 








ENEMY— LIFE ... 


I am sure, care's an enemy to life. 


Twelfth Night. 


I. 


3 


LOSS— REGRET ... 


Care killed a cat, 

Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down, 
My care is loss of care, by old care done ; 
Your care is gain of care, by new care won : 
The cares I give I have, though given away ; 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 

Richard II. 


V. 
IV. 




SLEEP— AGE 


Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, 
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


3 


USELESS 


Things without remedy, 
Should be without regard : what's done is done. 


Macbeth. 


III. 


2 


11 


Past cure is still past care. 

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, 
For things that are not to be remedied. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 

Henry FLPt.i. 


V. 

III. 


>> 

3 




CELIBACY. 








CONVENT 


She was sought by spirits of richest coat, 
But kept cold distance, and did thence remove, 
To spend her living in eternal love. 


Lover 1 s Com- 
plaint. 






II 


For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, 

To live a barren sister all your life, 

Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


I. 


i. 


CONDEMNED- 
DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive, 

If you will lead these graces to the grave, 

And leave the world no copy. 


Twelfth Night. 


II 


5 


»> >> 


Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, 
But gold that's put to use, more gold begets. 


Venus and 
Adonis, 






>» tt 


What is thy body but a swallowing grave, 

Seeming to bury that posterity, 
Which by the rights of time thou needs must have, 

If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity ? 


}■> D 






» >> 


Torches are made to light, jewels to wear, 
Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use; 

Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear ; 
Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse: 

Seeds spring from seeds, and beauty breedeth beauty; 

Thou wast begot, — to get it is thy duty. 


11 if 






)} >> 


Fruitless chastity, 
Love-lacking vestals, and self-loving nuns, 
That on the earth would breed a scarcity, 
And barren dearth of daughters and of sons, 


>> 5J 






>> >> 


It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature, to pre- 
serve virginity. 


AWs Well That 
Ends Well. 


I. 


i 


>» 5) 


Virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which 
is the most inhibited sin in the canon. 


>} >> 


>> 


>> 


>> II 


Loss of virginity is rational increase ; and there was 
never virgin got, till virginity was first lost. 


ff J> 


>> 


>> 


J> >> 


To speak on the part of virginity, is to accuse your 
mothers ; which is most infallible disobedience. 


)> )> 


>> 


>> 



J 9 



CLASSIFICATION. 


CELIBACY— fContinned) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


CONDEMNED- 
DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Virginity by being once lost, may be ten times found : by 
being ever kept, it is ever lost : 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


i. 


i 


PRAISED 


Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, 
To undergo such maiden pilgrimage : 
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, 
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, 
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


>> 


n 


VOW— YOUTH ... 


Vow, alack, for youth unmeet; 
Youth so apt to pluck a sweet. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


3 




CHANCE. 




DESCRIPTIVE OF 


They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we 
know what we are, but know not what we may be. 


Hamlet. 


>> 


5 


>> n 


Were it good, 
To set the exact wealth of all our states 
All at one cast ? to set so rich a main 
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour ? 
It were not good : for therein should we read 
The very bottom and the soul of hope ; 
The very list, the very utmost bound 
Of all our fortunes. 


Henry IF. Pt. I 


>i 


i 


it n 


Since the affairs of men rest still uncertain, 
Let's reason with the worst that may befall. 


Julius Caesar. 


V. 


n 


11 11 


If Hercules and Lichas play at dice 
Which is the better man, the greater throw 
May turn by fortune from the weaker hand : 
So is Alcides beaten by his page ; 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


11. 


» 


>' 11 


As the unthought-on accident is guilty 
To what we wildly do ; so we profess 
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies 
Of every wind that blows. 


Pointer's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


11 11 


By the hazard of the spotted die, 
Let die the spotted. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


V. 


5 


ENEMIES- 
FRIENDS 


Fellest foes, 
Whose passions, and whose plots, have broke their sleep 
To take the one the other, by some chance, 
Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends, 
And interjoin their issues. 


Coriolanus. 


IV. 


4 


FRIENDS- 
ENEMIES 


O world, thy slippery turns ! Friends now fast sworn, 
Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, 
Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise, 
Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love 
Unseparable, shall within this hour, 
On a dissension of a doit, break out 
To bitterest enmity : 


n 


11 


ii 




CHASTITY. 




DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Wears yet thy silver livery. 


Pericles. 


V. 


3 


TEMPTATION ... 


Look, thou be true : do not give dalliance 
Too much the rein : the strongest oaths are straw 
To the fire i' the blood : be more abstemious, 
Or else, good night, your vow ! 


Tempest. 


IV. 


i 


,, 


Touches so soft still conquer chastity. 


Passionate Pil- 
grim. 


verse 


ii 



20 



CLASSIFICATION. 



CHILDREN. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 








CHILDREN. 








ADOPTED 


'Tis often seen, 
Adoption strives with nature ; and choice breeds 
A native slip to us from foreign seeds ; 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


i. 


3 


,, 


I had rather to adopt a child, than get it. — 


Othello. 


>> 


>> 


BASTARD 


The child was prisoner to the womb ; and is, 
By law and process of great nature, thence 
Free'd and enfranchised : not a party to, 
. . . . Nor guilty of, the trespass. 


Winter'' s Tale. 


ii. 


2 


BEAUTIFUL 


At thy birth, dear boy, 
Nature and fortune join'd to make thee great : 
Of nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boast, 
And with the half-blown rose : 


King yohn. 


in. 


I 


ii ... 


Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, 
To him that did but yesterday suspire, 
There was not such a gracious creature born. 


>> 


>> 


4 


,, ... 


Happy the parents of so fair a child, 
Happier the man, whom favourable stars 
Allot thee for his lovely bedfellow ! 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


IV. 


5 


COMFORT 


He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter : 
Now my sworn friend, and then mine enemy ; 
My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all ; 
He makes a July's day short as December ; 
And, with his varying childness, cures in me 
Thoughts that would thick my blood. 


Winter's Tale. 


i. 


2 


CLEVER 


0, 'tis a parlous boy ; 
Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable : 


Richard III. 


in. 


I 


,, 


So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long. 


n 


n 


if 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Sweetmeats, messengers 

Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


tt 


2 


„ —INFANTS 


The infant, 
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms ; 


As You Like It. 


11. 


7 


INFLUENCE 


We do not know 
How he may soften at the sight o' the child ; 
The silence often of pure innocence, 
Persuades, when speaking fails. 


Winter's Tale. 


n 


2 


LIKENESS- 
PARENTS 

PARENTAGE- 
UNCERTAIN ... 


Although the print be little, the whole matter 

And copy of the father; eye, nose, lip, 

The trick of his frown, his forehead ; nay, the valley, 

The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek ; his smiles ; 

The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger : 

It is a wise father that knows his own child. 


Merchant of 


jj 


3 


„ —CONDEMNED 


That nature, which contemns its origin, 
Cannot be border'd certain in itself : 


Venice. 
King Lear. 


II. 

IV. 


2 
>> 


PARENTS- 
MONEY 


Fathers, that wear rags, 

Do make their children blind ; 
But fathers, that bear bags, 

Shall see their children kind. 


ft 


ii. 


4 


SICK— SORROW ... 


Now will canker sorrow eat my bud, 
And chase the native beauty from his cheek, 
And he will look as hollow as a ghost ; 
And dim and meagre as an ague's fit ; 
And so he'll die; and, rising so again, 
When I shall meet him in the court of heaven 
I shall not know him : 


King ^ohn. 


in. 


» 



21 



CLASSIFICATION. 



CHILDREN— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



TRUSTING 
DAUGHTERS 

UNGRATEFUL 



ALTERNATIVES .. 
BAD— REBUKE .. 



COMMON- 
DISCLAIMING .. 

JUDGMENT 

„ —SHALLOW 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 






FOREGONE 



OTHERS ... 

SIN— SINNERS 
UNEQUAL 



Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds 
By what you see them act. — 

I am glad at soul I have no other child ; 

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child ! — 

Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, 

More hideous, when thou shew'st thee in a child, 

Than the sea-monster ! 

Filial ingratitude ! 
Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand, 
For lifting food to't ? 



CHOICE. 

There's small choice in rotten apples. 

Sense, sure, you have, 
Else could you not have motion : But, sure, that sense 
Is apoplex'd : for madness would not err ; 
Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd 
But it reserved some quantity of choice, 
To serve in such a difference. 

I will not choose what many men desire, 
Because I will not jump with common spirits, 
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes. 

Seven times tried that judgment is, 
That did never choose amiss : 

In choosing for yourself, you shew'd your judgment, 
Which, being shallow, you shall give me leave 
To play the broker in mine own behalf ; 



CONCLUSIONS. 

O most lame and impotent conclusion ! — 

The end crowns all ; 

The event 
Is yet to name the winner : 

This denoted a foregone conclusion : 



CONDEMNATION. 

How would you be, 
If He, which is the top of judgment, should 
But judge you as you are ? 

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it ! 
Why, every fault's condemn'd, ere it be done : 

Great men may jest with saints : 'tis wit in them ; 
But, in the less, foul profanation. 

That in the captain's but a cholerick word, 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall : 
Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none ; 
And some condemned for a fault alone. 



Othello. 



King Lear. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Hamlet. 



Merchant of 
Fenice. 



HenryYI.Pt.3 



Othello. 

Troilns and 
Cressida. 

Cymleline. 

Othello. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



>> » 



>> >> 



>> >> 



M >» 



III. 



III. 



II. 



IV. 



II. 

IV. 

III. 



II. 



22 



CLASSIFICATION. 



CONSCIENCE. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 





CONSCIENCE. 








COWARDICE 


The heaviness and guilt within my bosom 
Takes off my manhood: 


Cymbeline. 


v. 


2 


,, 


Conscience is but a word that cowards use, 
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe ; 


Richard III. 


>> 


3 


,, 


Conscience does make cowards of us all ; 


Samlet. 


m. 


i 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
WICKED 


Their best conscience 
Is — not to leave undone, but keep unknown. 


Othello. 


>> 


3 


tf 11 


The wound that nothing healeth, 
The scar that will, despite of cure, remain : 


Tarquin. 






>> >> 


I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still, 

That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. — 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


v. 


ii 


u >> 


Better be with the dead, 
Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, 
Than on the torture of the mind to lie 
In restless ecstasy. 


Macbeth. 


III. 


2 


» >> 


My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, 
And every tongue brings in a several tale, 
And every tale condemns me for a villain. 


Richard III. 


V. 


3 


„ 


It beggars any man that keeps it : it is turned out of all 
towns and cities for a dangerous thing ; and every man 
that means to live well, endeavours to trust to himself, and 
live without it. 


a 


I. 


4 


tt 


I'll not meddle with it, it's a dangerous thing, it makes 
a man a coward ; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth 
him ; a man cannot swear, but it checks him ; a man 
cannot lie with his neighbour's wife, but it detects him. 
'Tis a blushing, shame-faced spirit, that mutinies in a 
man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles : 


>» 


>> 


>> 


FEAR— THIEF ... 


The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 


Henry FI.Pt.$. 


V. 


6 


GUILTY-REWARD 


The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour, 


Richard II. 


>> 


4 


PLAYS— INFLU- 
ENCE 


I have heard, 

That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, 
Have by the very cunning of the scene 
Been struck so to the soul, that presently 
They have proclaim' d their malefactions : 


Hamlet. 


II. 


2 


QUIET 


I feel within me 
A peace above all earthly dignities, 
A still and quiet conscience. 


Henry VIII. 


III. 


>> 


RESOLUTION 


Stop up the access and passage to remorse, 
That no compunctious visitings of nature 
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between 
The effect and it ! 


Macbeth. 


I. 


5 




CONSOLATION. 








JOB-COMFORT- 
ING 


You rub the sore, 
When you should bring the plaster. 


Tempest. 


II. 


i 


LOSSES 


How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our 
losses ! 


All's Well That 
Ends Hell. 


IV. 


3 



23 



CLASSIFICATION. 


CONSOLATION— (Continued^ . 


PLAT OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


OTHERS— SELF ... 


A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, 

We bid be quiet when we hear it cry ; 

But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, 

As much, or more, we should ourselves complain : 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


II. 


I 


n >> 


Men 
Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief 
Which they themselves not feel ; 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


V. 


11 


>> n 


Well, every one can master a grief, but he that has it. 


>> >> 


III. 


2 


„ —TROUBLES 


Silly beggars, 
Sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame, 
That many have, and others must sit there : 
And in this thought they find a kind of ease, 
Bearing their own misfortune on the back 
Of such as have before endured the like. 


Richard II. 


V. 


5 


» ■ >> 


Yet am I better 
Than one that 's sick o' the gout ; since he had rather 
Groan so in perpetuity, than be cured 
By the sure physician, death ; 


Cymbeline. 


11 


4 


TARDY 


That comfort comes too late; 
'Tis like a pardon after execution : 


Henry VIII. 


IV. 


2 




CONSTANCY. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, 

As sun to day, as turtle to her mate, 

As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre, 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


2 


» » 


Never did young man fancy 
With so eternal and so fix'd a soul. 


11 11 


V. 


11 


FAITH 


I speak not, be thou true, as fearing thee ; 
For I will throw my glove to death himself, 
That there's no maculation in thy heart : 
But, be thou true, say I, to fashion in 
My sequent protestation. 


11 11 


IV. 


4 


,, 


The sun was not so true unto the day, 
As he to me : 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


III. 


2 


MAN— PERFECT... 
WOMAN 


Were man but constant, he were perfect : 

A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted, 
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion ; 

A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted 

With shifting change, as is false woman's fashion ; 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Sonnet 20. 


V. 


4 


• 


O, that I thought it could be in a woman, 
(As if it can, I will presume in you,) 
To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love ; 
To keep her constancy in plight and youth, 
Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind, 
That doth renew swifter than blood decays 1 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


2 


VOW 


I am as true as truth's simplicity, 
And simpler than the infancy of truth. 


ii ii 


11 


ft 


11 


O, never say, that I was false of heart, 

Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify. 

As easy might I from myself depart, 

As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie : 

That is my home of love : if I have ranged, 
Like him that travels, I return again ; 


Sonnet 109. 







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CLASSIFICATION 




CONSTANCY— (Continued) . 




PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


VOW 


Never believe, though in my nature reign'd 
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood, 

That it could so preposterously be stain'd, 
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good ; 

For nothing this wide universe I call, 

Save thou, my rose ; in it thou art my all. 


Sonnet 109. 






>> 




Time, force, and death, 
Do to this body what extremes you can ; 
But the strong base and building of my love 
Is as the very centre of the earth, 
Drawing all things to it. 




Troilus and 

Cressida. 


IV. 


2 




CONTENTMENT. 








CROWNS— KINGS 


My crown is call'd, content ; 
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. 


Hairy VI.Pt.$. 


III. 


I 


DISCONTENT ... 


Nought 's had, all 's spent, 
Where our desire is got without content : 


Macbeth. 


» 


2 


HAPPINESS 


Our content 
Is our best having. 


Henry VIII. 


II. 


3 


,, 


Happy in that we are not over-happy ; 

On fortune's cap we are not the very button. 


Hamlet. 


J> 


2 


POVERTY- 
WEALTH 


'Tis better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 


Henry VIII. 


n 


3 


>> >> 


Willing misery 
Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before: 
The one is filling still, never complete ; 
The other, at high wish : 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


»> 


>■> ■» 


Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough ; 
But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, 
To him that ever fears he shall be poor : — 


Othello. 


III. 


n 


SAFETY 


I'll rather keep 
That which I have, than coveting for more, 
Be cast from possibility of all. 


Henry Vl.Pt.i. 


V. 


4 




COURAGE. 








ASSERTING 


I dare do all that may become a man ; 
Who dares do more, is none. 


Macbeth. 


I. 


7 


DANGER 


We are in great danger ; 
The greater therefore should our courage be. 


Henry V. 


IV. 


1 


,, 


Courage mounteth with occasion : 


King John. 


II. 


>» 


DEATH 


An undaunted spirit in a dying breast ! — 


Henry Vl.Pt.i. 


III. 


2 


DISCRETION 


The better part of valour is, — discretion ; 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


V. 


4 


FAMINE 


Famine, 
Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant. 


Cymbeline. 


III. 


6 


HONESTY 


Where I could not be honest, 
I never yet was valiant : 


King Lear. 


V. 


1 


,, 


... 


A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. 




Henry VI.Pt.2. 


III. 


n 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



COURAGE— (Continued^. 



PLAT OB POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



INCITING 


Screw your courage to the sticking-place, 
And we'll not fail. 


Macbeth. 


i. 


7 


,, 


Where is your ancient courage ? you were used 

To say, extremity was the trier of spirits ; 

That common chances common men could bear ; 

That, when the sea was calm, all boats alike 

Shew'd mastership in floating : fortune's blows 

When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves 

A noble cunning : 


Coriolanns. 


IV. 


i 


» 


Outface the brow 
Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes, 
That borrow their behaviours from the great, 
Grow great by your example, and put on 
The dauntless spirit of resolution. 


King John. 


v. 


it 


MEN— WOMEN ... 


He, that perforce robs lions of their hearts, 
May easily win a woman's. 


tt tt 


i. 


tt 


MORAL 


O, what a noble combat hast thou fought, 
Between compulsion and a brave respect ! 


}j tt 


v. 


2 


„ —TRUE ... 
/ 


He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer 

The worst that man can breathe ; and make his wrongs 

His outsides ; wear them like his raiment, carelessly ; 

And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, 

To bring it into danger. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


III. 


5 


POLITENESS [... 


Manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compli- 
ment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones 
too ; he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie, 
and swears it. 


Much Ado 

Ah out Nothing. 


IV. 


i 


RASHNESS 


Manhood is called foolery when it stands 
Against a falling fabric. — 


Coriolanus. 


III. 


tt 


tt 


Foolish curs ! that run winking into the mouth of a 
Russian bear, and have their heads crushed like rotten 
apples : You may as well say, — that's a valiant flea, that 
dare eat his breakfast on the hip of a lion. 


Henry V. 


tt 


7 


,, 


When valour preys on reason, 
It eats the sword it fights with. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


tt 


ii 




COWARDS. 








APPEARANCE- 
GOOD 


How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false 
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins 
The beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars ; 
Who inward searched have livers white as milk ? 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


III. 


2 


BOASTING 


Coward dogs 
Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten 
Runs far before them. 


Henry V. 


II. 


4 


DEATH 


Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 


Julius C&sar. 


tt 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


With hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads, 


Henry IF.Pt.i. 


IV. 


tt 


tt . ••• 


Thou little valiant, great in villainy ! 
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! 


King John. 


in. 


I 


,, 


A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it. 


Twelfth Night. 


tt 


4 


,, 


If he were opened, and you find so much blood in his 
liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the 
anatomy. 


tt tt 


tt 


2 



CLASSIFICATION. 



COWARDS— (Continued). 



PLAY OB TOEM. ACT. SC. 



EXAMPLE- 
BATTLE... 

FEAR— LOVE 



FOES— WEAK- 
NESS 

HUMILITY— BASE 



MEN— WOMEN 



REBUKE— MAN 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 

FOOLS- 
TEACHERS 

GOODNATURED.. 

HUSBANDS- 
JEALOUSY 

SAYINGS V. DEEDS 

WOMEN— MEN .. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
REBUKE 

TONGUE— HEART 
USELESS 



27 



Some turn coward 
But by example, (O, a sin in war 
Damn'd in the first beginners !) 

All is the fear, and nothing- is the love ; 
As little is the wisdom where the flight 
So runs against all reason. 

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, 
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, 

The lion, dying, thrusteth forth his paw, 
And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage 
To be o'erpowered ; and wilt thou, pupil-like, 
Take thy correction mildly ? kiss the rod ; 
And fawn on rage with base humility . . . ? 

A trim exploit, a manly enterprise, 
To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes, 
With your derision ! None, of noble sort, 
Would so offend a virgin ; and extort 
A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport. 

If you were men, as men you are in show, 
You would not use a gentle, lady so ; 

Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, 
Digressing from the valour of a man : 



CREDULITY. 

And will as tenderly be led by the nose, 
As asses are. 

Poor fools 
Believe false teachers : 

His nature is so far from doing harms, 
That he suspects none ; 

Thus credulous fools are caught ; 
And many worthy and chaste dames, even thus, 
All guiltless meet reproach. — 

He that will believe all that they say, shall never be 
saved by half that they do : 

Alas, poor women ! make us but believe, 
Being compact of credit, that you love us : 

Though others have the arm, shew us the sleeve ; 
We in your motion turn, and you may move us. 

We are soft as our complexions are, 
And credulous to false prints. 



CURSES. 

Curses, not loud, but deep, 

Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth? 
Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet 
In thee at once : 

My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse. 

Curses never pass 
The lips of those that breathe them in the air. 

Can curses pierce the clouds, and enter heaven ? — 



Cymbcline. 



Macbeth. 



Richard II. 



M >> 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Othello. 



Cymbeline. 



King Lear. 



Othello. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



Macbeth. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 

Richard III. 



v - 3 



iv. 2 



in. 



V. I 



III. 



III. 



IV. 



V. 



III. 



II. 



III. I „ 

■ 

IV. 2 

»• 3 

I 

)1 J7 



CLASSIFICATION. 



CUSTOM. 



PLAT OK P0E3I. ACT. 



SC. 





CUSTOM — (see also habit). 








BREACH 


In this, the antique and well-noted face 

Of plain old form is much disfigured : 

And like a shifted wind unto a sail, 

It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about ; 

Startles and frights consideration ; 

Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected, 

For putting on so new a fashion'd robe. 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


,, 


It is a custom 
More honour'd in the breach, than the observance. 


Hamlet. 


I. 


4 


,, 


The breach of custom 
Is breach of all. 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


2 


GREAT MEN 


Nice customs court'sy to great kings. 


Henry V. 


v. 


>> 


HABIT 


Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. 


Hamlet. 


>> 


I 


NEW— FASHION- 
ABLE 


New customs, 
Though they be never so ridiculous, 
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow' d. 


Henry Till. 


l. 


3 


OLD— NEW 


Old fashions please me best ; I am not so nice, 
To change true rules for odd inventions. 


Taming of the 
Shrew 


in. 


i 


TRUTH— ERROR 


What custom wills, in all things should we do't, 
The dust on antique time would lie unswept, 
And mountainous error be too highly heap'd 
For truth to over-peer. — 


Coriolanus 


ii. 


3 


USE 


That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, 
Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this ; 
That to the use of actions fair and good 
He likewise gives a frock, or livery, 
That aptly is put on : 


Hamlet. 


in. 


4 




Will you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an 
honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of 
pre-deceased valour . . . . ? 


Henry V. 


V. 


t 




CYNICS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Biron is like an envious sneaping frost, 
That bites the first-born infants of the spring. 


Love 1 s Labour'' s 
Lost. 


I. 


i 


>> >> 


He loves no plays ; he hears no music ; 
Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a sort, 
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit 
That could be moved to smile at anything. 


Julius Caesar. 


" 


2 




DANCERS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Earth -treading stars that make dark heaven light: 

Let wantons, light of heart, 
Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


I. 


2 

4 


GRACEFUL 


When you do dance, I wish you 
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that; move still, still so, and own 
No other function: 


JVinter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


,, 


She sings like one immortal, and she dances as goddess- 
like to her admired lays : 


Pericles. 


V. 


Govu- 
er. 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



DANGER. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 


DANGER. 

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger; 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






„ —HIDDEN 


The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. 


Henry VI. Pt.2. 


in. 


I 


>> >> 


Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep ; 


t> >> 


n 


>> 


DESIRED 


Send danger from the east unto the west, 
So honour cross it from the north to south, 
And let them grapple. — O ! the blood more stirs, 
To rouse a lion, than to start a hare. 


Henry IV. Pt. i. 


I. 


3 


INACTION... 


We hear this fearful tempest sing, 
Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm ; 
We see the wind sit sore upon our sails, 
And yet we strike not, but securely perish. 


Richard II. 


11. 


1 


INVENTION 
SAFETY 


Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear: 

Oat of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 


Venus and 

Adonis. 
Henry lV.Pt.i. 


n 


3 




DAY. 




GLORIOUS 


Such a day, 
So fought, so follow'd, and so fairly won, 
Came not, till now, to dignify the times, 
Since Caesar's fortunes I 


Henry IV. Pt.2. 


1. 


1 


,, 


To solemnize this day, the glorious sun 
Stays in his course, and plays the alchymist ; 
Turning, with splendour of his precious eye, 
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold : 


King yohn. 


III. 


>> 


MORNING— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


The gentle day, 
Before the wheels of Phcebus, round about 

Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray : 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


v. 


3 


)> M 


See how the morning opens her golden gates, 
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun 
[How well resembles it the prime of youth, 
Trimm'd like a younker, prancing to his love ! ] 


Henry VI.Pt.3. 


11. 


1 


}> » 


Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, 

And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; 

At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, 

Troop home to church -yards : 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


in. 


2 


>> » 


What envious streaks 

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : 
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


j> 


5 


>> » 


The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, 
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light ; 
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels 
From forth day's path-way, made by Titan's wheels : 


>> >> 


11. 


3 


» » 


But all so soon as the all-cheering sun 
Should in the furthest east begin to draw 
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, 


tt >> 


1. 


1 


" » 


The silent hours steal on, 

And flaky darkness breaks within the east. 


Richard III. 


V. 


3 


>> » 


The glow-worm shews the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire! 


Hamlet. 


I. 


5 


» » 


The morn, in russet mantle clad, 

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 


T> 


>> 


1 



29 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DAY — CContinuedJ . 



PLAT OR POEil. ACT. SC. 



UNLUCKY 


Let wives with child 

Pray, that their burdens may not fall this day, 

Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crossed: 

But on this day let seamen fear no wreck ; 

No bargains break, that are not this day made : 

This day, all things begun come to ill end ; 

Y'ea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change ! 


King John. 


m. 


I 




DEATH. 








APPARENT 


Death may usurp on nature many hours, 
And yet the fire of life kindle again 
The overpressed spirits. 


Pericles. 


in. 


2 


BAD— LIFE 


Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, 

When death's approach is seen so terrible ! 


Henry VI. Pt. 2. 


ii 


11 


»» >> 


So bad a death argues a monstrous life. 


n n 


ii 


ii 


CONSOLATION ... 


With meditating that she must die once, 
I have the patience to endure it now. 


Julius Ccesar. 


IV. 


3 


,, 


The most you sought was — her promotion ; 
For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced ; 
And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced, 
Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


ii 


5 


,, 


Heaven and yourself 
Had part in this fair maid; now Heaven hath all, 
And all the better is it for the maid : 
Your part in her you could not keep from death ; 
But Heaven keeps his part in eternal life. 


11 11 


ii 


ii 


COURAGE— EX- 
PRESSING 


After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; 

Treason has done his worst ; nor steel, nor poison, 

Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, 

Can touch him farther ! 

At least we'll die with harness on our back. 


Macbeth. 

n 


in. 

V. 


2 

5 


» n 


If I must die, 
• I will encounter darkness as a bride, 
And hug it in mine arms. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


III. 


i 


n n 


Talk not of dying ; I am out of fear 

Of death, or death's hand, for this one half-year, 


HejirylF.Pt.i. 


IV. 


ii 


DEBT— GOD 


Thou owest God a death. 


ii ii 


V. 


ii 


,, 


He that dies, pays all debts : 


Tempest. 


III. 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


We cannot hold mortality's strong hand: — 


King John. 


IV. 


ii 


» u 


O amiable lovely death ! 

Thou odoriferous stench ! sound rottenness ! 


ii ii 


III. 


4 


» u 


Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts, 
Leaves them insensible ; and his siege is now 
Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds 
With many legions of strange fantasies ; 
Which, in their throng and press to that last hold, 
Confound themselves. 


ii ii 


V. 


7 


u »j 


" Hard-fa vour'd tyrant, ugly, meagre, lean, 
Hateful divorce of love," 


Venus and 
Adojiis. 






j> »> 


To dwell in solemn shades of endless night. 


Richard III. 


I. 


3 



3° 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DEATH— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 






DESIRE 



She looks upon his lips, and they are pale; 

She takes him by the hand, and that is cold ; 
She whispers in his ears a heavy tale, 

As if they heard the woful words she told : 
She lifts the coffer -lids that close his eyes, 
Where, lo ! two lamps, burnt out, in darkness lies. 

Secure from worldly chances and mishaps ! 

Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, 

Here grow no damned grudges; here are no storms, 

No noise, but silence and eternal sleep : 

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, . 
Which hurts, and is desired. 

Here hung those lips, that I have kissed I know not 
how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your 
songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set 
the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own 
grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's 
chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this 
favour she must come : make her laugh at that. — 

You snatch some hence for little faults ; that's love, 
To have them fall no more : you some permit 
To second ill with ills, each elder worse; 
And make them dread it to the doer's thrift. 

The blind cave of eternal night. — 

That fell arrest 
Without all bail. 

To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; 
This sensible warm motion to become 
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit 
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 
In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; 
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, 
And blown with restless violence round about 
The pendent world; 

To sue to live, I find, I seek to die ; 
And, seeking death, find life : 



O 



Misery's love, 
come to me. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



Titus 

Andronicus. i. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Arise forth from the couch of lasting night, 

Thou hate and terror to prosperity, 

And I will kiss thy detestable bones ; 

And put my eye-balls in thy vaulty brows ; 

And ring these fingers with thy household worms ; 

And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust, 

And be a carrion monster like thyself: 

O fate, take not away thy heavy hand ! 
Death is the fairest cover for her shame, 
That may be wished for. 

I have 
Immortal longings in me : 

The arbitrator of despairs, 

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries, 

With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence ; 

O let him pass ! he hates him much 
That would upon the rack of this tough world 
Stretch him out longer. 



Hamlet. 



Cyml-eline. 
Richard I IT. 



Sonnet 74. 



3 



Measure for 
Measure. 



»> >» 



King John. 



in. 



>> »> 



Much Ado 

About Nothmg. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Henry VI. Pt.i 



King Lea}-. 



IV. 



11. 



31 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DE ATH— fContin uedj . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESIRE 



DISTINCTIONS- 
HIGH— LOW 



EXPECTING 



FEAR— COWARDS 



„ —FOLLY 



„ —PAIN 



FUNERAL- 
OBSCURE 

HAPPINESS 
HIGH— LOW 

INDIFFERENCE ... 
INSPIRATION ... 
KINGS— BEGGARS 



„ —SAGES . 
KNOWLEDGE .. 
LEVELLER 
LIFE— ETERNITY 



He gains by death, that hath such means to die : — 

I live, and seek in vain 
Some happy mean to end a hapless life. 

Tell me what blessings I have here alive, 
That I should fear to die? 

I defy all counsel, all redress, 
But that, which ends all counsel, true redress, 
Death, death: — 

Though mean and mighty, rotting 
Together, have one dust ; yet reverence 
(That angel of the world) doth make distinction 
Of place 'tween high and low. 

I every day expect an embassage 

From my Redeemer to redeem me hence; 

Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, 

It seems to me most strange, that men should fear 

Seeing that death, a necessary end, 

Will come when it will come. 

The sense of death is most in apprehension; 
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, 
In corporal sufferance, finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. 

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, 
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment 
Can lay on nature, is a paradise 
To what we fear of death. 

In this life 
Lie hid more thousand deaths : yet death we fear, 

That life is better life, past fearing death, 
Than that which lives to fear : 

His obscure funeral, — 
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment, o'er his bones, 
No noble right, nor formal ostentation, — 

In my sense, 'tis happiness to die. 

Golden lads and girls all must, 

As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. 

A man can die but once ; — we owe God a death ; — - 

Holy men, at their death, have good inspirations ; 

Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all 
creatures else, to fat us : and we fat ourselves for maggots. 
Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable ser- 
vice; two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. 

The sceptre, learning, physic, must 
All follow this, and come to dust. . 

That we shall die, we know ; 'tis but the time, 
And drawing days out, that men stand upon. 

Thersites' body is as good as Ajax, 
When neither are alive. 

All that live must die, 
Passing through nature to eternity . . . 



Comedy of 
Errors. 

Tarquin. 



Winter' 1 's Tale. 
King John. 

Cymleline. 
Richard III. 
Julius Ccesar. 



in. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



>> >> 



»> >> 



D »> 



Hamlet. 


IV 


Othello. 


v. 


Cymleline. 


IV. 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


Ill 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


I. 



Hamlet. 
Cymleline. 
Julius C&sar. 
Cymleline. 
Hamlet. 



IV, 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



in. 



IV. 



33 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DEATH— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



LIFE— LOVE 

LOVERS 

MIRTH 

NEWS— DOCTOR 
POMP— GLORY .. 
POSSESSIONS .. 

QUIET 



READINESS 



REPENTANCE 



RESOLUTION . 

SIGNS— AP- 
PROACHING 



}5 53 



SINGING 



SLEEP 



„ DREAMS 



SUDDEN 



O our lives' sweetness 1 
That with the pain of death we'd hourly die, 
Rather than die at once ! 

All lovers young, all lovers must 
Consign to thee, and come to dust. 

How oft, when men are at the point of death, 
Have they been merry? 

Whom worse than a physician 
Would this report become? 

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? 
And, live we how we can, yet die we must. 

Nothing can we call our own, but death ! 
And that small model of the barren earth, 
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. 

If thou and nature can so gently part, 
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, 
W r hich hurts, and is desired. 
If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world 
It is not worth leave-taking. 

Men must endure 
Their going hence, even as their coming hither : 
Ripeness is .all : 

Full of repentance, 
Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, 
He gave his honours to the world again, 
His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace. 

Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, 
Shall thereby be the sweeter. 

After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with 
flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was 
but one way : for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a 
babbled of green fields. 

His pure brain 
(W T hich some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house) 
Doth, by the idle comments that it makes, 
Foretell the ending of mortality. 

Chants a doleful hymn to his own death ; 
And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings 
His soul and body to their lasting rest. 

'Tis strange, that death should sing. — 

After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well; 

The sleeping, and the dead, 
Are but as pictures : 

Awake ! 
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, 

Sleep in dull cold marble, 

O sleep, thou ape of death, 

To die, — to sleep ; — 
To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub ; 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 
W^hen we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, 
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unaneal'd; 



King Lear. 

Cymbeline. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Cymbeline. 

Henry n.Pt.3, 



Richard II. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



King Lear, 



Henry VIII. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



He fir y V. 



King John 



Macbeth. 



Henry Fill. 

Cymbeli?ie. 



Hamlet. 



IV. 



v. 



in. 



V. 



IV. 



III. 



II. 



III. 

J> 

II. 
III. 
II. 



III. 



33 



CLASSIFICATION. 


DEATH— CContinued). 


PLAY OE POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


SUDDEN 


No reckoning made, but sent to my account, 
With all my imperfections on my head : 


Hamlet. 


i. 


5 


J, 


All things, that we ordained festival, 
Turn from their office to black funeral : 
Our instruments, to melancholy bells; 
Our wedding cheer, to a sad burial feast; 
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; 
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, 
And all things change them to the contrary, 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


IV. 


>) 


UNPREPARED ... 


He's not prepared for death ! Even for our kitchens 
We kill the fowl of season; shall we serve Heaven 
With less respect than we do minister 
To our gross selves ? 


Measure for 
Measure. 


ii. 


2 


)> 


No reckoning made, but sent to my account, 
With all my imperfections on my head : 


Hamlet. 


i. 


5 


)> 


'Tis a vile thing to die, 
When men are unprepared, and look not for it 


Richard III. 


in. 


2 


WARNING 


Death remember'd, should be like a mirror, 
Who tells us, life's but breath ; to trust it, error. 


Pericles. 


i. 


I 


}) 


O me ! this sight of death is as a bell, 
That warns my old age to a sepulchre. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


v. 


3 


WORDS— DYING 
MEN 


More are men's ends mark'd, than their lives before : 

The setting sun, and music at the close, 
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last ; 
Is writ in remembrance, more than things long past : 


Richard 11. 


ii. 


i 


YOUTH 


Death lies on her, like an untimely frost 
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


IV. 


5 


j> 


The Destinies will curse thee for this stroke ; 

They bid thee crop a weed, thou pluck'st a flower: 
Love's golden arrow at him should have fled, 
And not death's ebon dart, to strike him dead. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






,, 


Thy mark is feeble age ; but thy false dart 
Mistakes that aim, and cleaves an infant's heart. 


}j 






BEAUTY... 


He but sleeps ; 
If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed ; 
With female fairies will his tomb be haunted, 
And worms will not come to thee. 


Cymleline. 


5) 


2 




DEBTS. 








BONDS—LOVERS 


Bless'd be, 
You bees, that make these locks of counsel ! Lovers, 
And men in dangerous bonds, pray not alike; 
Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet 
You clasp young Cupid's tables. 


Cymleline. 


III. 


2 


DEATH-PAYMENT 


He that dies, pays all debts : 


Tempest. 


}) 


>> 


a >} 


the charity of a penny cord ! it sums up thousands in 
a trice: you have no true debtor and creditor but it; of 
what's past, is, and to come, the discharge. 


Cymleline. 


V. 


4 


FRIENDS 


Neither a borrower, nor a lender be : 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend; 


Hamlet. 


I. 


3 


PAYMENT— PRO- 
MISE 


I will pay you some, and, as most debtors do, promise 
you infinitely. 


Henry lV.Pt.2. 


Epil 


'jgue. 



34 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DECEIT. 



PLAY OK POEM. ACT. 



sc. 



FAIR LOOKS 






JUSTIFIED— 

FRIENDS 



WORLD— YOUTH 



EVIL 



MARRIAGE 



DECEIT. 

O, that deceit should dwell 
In such a gorgeous palace! 

Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical ! 
Dove-feather' d raven ! wolvish-ravening lamb ! 
Despised substance of divinest shew ! 
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, 

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face ! 
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave ? 

nature ! what hadst thou to do in hell, 
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend 
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh ? 

Was ever book, containing such vile matter, 
So fairly bound ? 

Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, 
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice ! 

Who makes the fairest show, means most deceit. 

Mine eyes 
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful ; 
Mine ears, that heard her flattery ; nor my heart, 
That thought her like her seeming ; it had been vicious 
To have mistrusted her : 

Who cannot steal a shape, that means deceit? 

O, what may man within him hide, 
Though angel on the outward side ! 
How many likeness, made in crimes, 
Making practice on the times, 
Draw with idle spiders' strings 
Most pond'rous and substantial things ! 

1 would dissemble with my nature, where 

My fortunes, and my friends, at stake required 
I should do so in honour: 

That is good deceit 
Which mates him first, that first intends deceit. 

The untainted virtue of your years 
Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit : 



DEEDS. 

Foul deeds will rise, 
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. 

I should make very forges of my cheeks, 
That would to cinders burn up modesty, 
Did I but speak thy deeds. — 

Things, bad begun, make strong themselves by ill : 

Such an act, 
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; 
Calls virtue, hypocrite ; takes off the rose 
From the fair forehead of an innocent love 
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows 
As false as dicers' oaths : O, such a deed 
As from the body of contraction plucks 
The very soul ; and sweet religion makes 
A rhapsody of words: 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Cymleline. 
Henri/ VI. Pt.2. in 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Coriolanus. 
Henry Vl.Pt.2. 
Richard III. 



Hamlet. 

Othello. 
Macbeth. 



Hamlet. 



ii. 



Richard HI. \ n. 
Pericles. 



IV. 

in. 



in. 



35 



CLASSIFICATION. 


DEEDS — (Continued). 


PLAT OB POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


EVIL 


This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven, 










Than thou wast worthy her. 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


NIGHT ... 


'Ere the bat hath flown 
His cloister'd flight; ere, to black Hecate's summons, 
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, 
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done 










A deed of dreadful note. 


Macbeth. 


III. 


f> 


PITY 


Pity, like a naked new-born babe, 
Striding the blast, or Heaven's cherubin, horsed 
Upon the sightless couriers of the air, 
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, 










That tears shall drown the wind — 


» 


I. 


7 


„ —REGRET ... 


0, would the deed were good ! 
For now the devil, that told me — I did well, 










Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell, 


Richard II. 


V. 


5 


WORDS ... 


111 deeds are doubled with an evil word. 


Comedy of 






FEAR— ATTEMPT 


The attempt, and not the deed 


Errors. 


III. 


2 




Confounds us : — 


Macbeth. 


II. 


>> 


,, 


Impossible be strange attempts, to those 

That weigh their pains in sense ; and do suppose, 


AIVs Well That 








What hath been cannot be : 


Ends Well. 


I. 


I 


GOOD 


I never did repent for doing good, 


Merchant of 








Nor shall not now : 


Venice. 


III. 


4 


LIGHT ... 


How far that little candle throws his beams ! 










So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 


» J5 


V. 


i 


„ UNPRAISED 


One good deed, dying tongueless, 










Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that. 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


2 


HESITATION 


Between the acting of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : 
The genius, and the mortal instruments, 
Are then in council ; and the state of man, 
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then 










The nature of an insurrection. 


Julius Caesar. 


II. 


I 


5) 


If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well 










It were done quickly : 


Macbeth. 


I. 


7 


INCOMPLETE 


We have scotch' d the snake, not kill'd it ; 


>> 


III. 


2 


JUSTIFYING 


O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell, 
But that I did proceed upon just grounds 










To this extremity : 


Othello. 


V. 


35 


PERFORMANCE ... 


That what you cannot, as you would, achieve, 


Titus 








You must perforce accomplish as you may. 


Andronicus. 


II. 


T 


„ PROMISE 


What you bid me undertake, 
Though that my death were adjunct to my act, 










By heaven, I'd do't. 


King Joh?i. 


III. 


3 


PERSISTED— RE- 


Strange it is, 








PENTANCE 


That nature must compel us to lament 


Antony and 








Our most persisted deeds. 


Cleopatra. 


V. 


i 


PRICE 


Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world ? 
The world is a huge thing : 'Tis a great price 










For a small vice. 


Othello. 


IV. 


3 


RECRIMINATION 


Thou didst understand me by my signs, 
And didst in signs again parley with sin ; 
Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent, 









36 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DEEDS— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



RECRIMINATION. 



RELUCTANCE 
TEMPTATION 

UNNATURAL- 
TROUBLE 

WORDS ... 



DANGEROUS 



DESCRIPTIVE- 
BEGGARY 

SUSPENSE 

THINKING 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
EXPRESSING 



And, consequently, thy rude hand to act 

The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name. 

Hadst thou but shook thy head, or made a pause, 

When I spake darkly what I purposed ; 

Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face, 

As bid me tell my tale in express words ; 

Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off, 

And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me: 

I have no great devotion to the deed ; 

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, 
Makes deeds ill done I 

Unnatural deeds 
Do breed unnatural troubles 

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well : 
And yet words are no deeds. 



DELAY. 

Dull not device by coldness and delay. 

That we would do, 
We should do when we would; for this would changes, 
And hath abatements and delays as many, 
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents ; 
And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, 
That hurts by easing. 

Delays have dangerous ends ; 

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary ; 

One inch of delay more is a South-sea-off discovery. 

I have learn'd, that fearful commenting 
Is leaden servitor to dull delay ; 



DESERTION. 

It is too true an evil : gone she is ; 

And what's to come of my despised time, 

Is nought but bitterness. — 

Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them with his 
comfort ; 



DESPAIR. 

Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be 
washed off the next tide. 

There's nothing in this world can make me joy. 

If I be foiled, there is but one shamed, that was never 
gracious ; if killed, but one dead, that is willing to be so : 
I shall do my friends no wrong, for I have none to lament 
me ; the world no injury, for in it I have nothing ; 
only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better 
supplied when I have made it empty. 

I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; 
And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — 



King yohn. 


IV. 


1. 


j) 


Othello. 


v. 


King John. 


IV. 


Macbeth. 


V. 


Henry Fill. 


III. 


Othello. 


II. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


Henry VI. Pi. i. 


III. 


Richard III. 


IV. 


As You, Like It. 


III. 


Richard III. 


IV. 



Othello. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



As You Like It. 



Richard III. 



in. 



Henry V. iv 

King yohn in. 



37 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DESPAIR— (Continued). 



PLAT OB POEil. ACT. EC. 



EXPRESSING 



. I will despair, and be at enmity 
With cozening hope : 



DEATH 

DUE 

GENTLEMAN 

SCRIPTURE 

TEMPTATION 



TRUTH 
WINE 



INORDINATE 
—USE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
HOUNDS- 



LICK— SORES 

PHYSIC 

QUALITIES- 
DIFFERENT 



BAD 
BELIEF 

DELUSION 



DEVIL. 

If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee. 

Give the devil his due. 

The prince of darkness is a gentleman ; 

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, 

When devils will their blackest sins put on, 
They do suggest at first with heavenly shews. 

The devil hath power 
To assume a pleasing shape ; 

Tell truth, and shame the devil. — 

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to 
be known by, let us call thee devil ! 

Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a 
devil. 



DOGS. 

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, 
So flew'd, so sanded : and their heads are hung 
With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; 

'Gainst venom'd sores the only sovereign plaster ; 

Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. 

Hounds, and grey-hounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are cleped 
All by the name of dogs : the valued file 
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, 
The house-keeper, the hunter, every one 
According to the gift which bounteous nature 
Hath in him closed : whereby he does receive 
Particular addition from the bill 
That writes them all alike : 



DREAMS. 

Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature 
Gives way to in repose ! 

For his dreams, I wonder he's so fond 
To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers ; 

'Tis still a dream ; or else such stuff as madmen 
Tongue, and brain not : 

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream : 
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep ; 
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep ! 

1 hink no more of this night's accidents, 
But as the fierce vexation of a dream. 



Richard II. 



: ;. 



Othello. 


v. 


!5 


Henry J'. 


in. 


7 


King Lear. 


M 


4 


Merchant of 






Venice. 


I. 


.^ 


Othello. 


11. 


;> 


Hamlet. 


" 


2 


Henry IF.Pt.i. 


in. 


I 



Othello. 



ii. 



Midsummer 
Xizhfs Dream IV. 

Venus and 

Adonis. 

Macleth. v. 



m. r 



Macleth. 



ii. 



Richard III. in. 



Cyjnleline. 



Twelfth Night, iv. ; i 

Midsummer 

X ghi's Dream ,, ,, 



3« 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DREAMS— CContinuedJ. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



sc. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
— QUEEN MAB.. 



>> >' 






u >> 



FALSEHOOD 

FEAR 

FOREGONE— ACT 



HAPPY 



I see, queen Mab hath been with you. 

She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes 

In shape no bigger than an agate-stone 

On the fore-finger of an alderman, 

Drawn with a team of little atomies 

Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : 

Her waggon-spokes made of long-spinners' legs ; 

The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; 

The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; 

The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams : 

Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film : 

Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, 

Not half so big as a round little worm 

Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : 

Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, 

Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, 

Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. 

She gallops night by night 
Through lover's brains, and then they dream o' love ! 
O'er courtier's knees, that dream on courtsies straight ; 
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees : 
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream ; 
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, 
Because their breaths with sweet-meats tainted are. 

Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, 
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit : 
And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, 
Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, 
Then dreams he of another benefice : 
Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, 
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, 
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, 
Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon 
Drums in his ear ; at which he starts, and wakes ; 
And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, 
And sleeps again. 

Dreams ; 
Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; 
Which is as thin of substance as the air ; 
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes 
Even now the frozen bosom of the north, 
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, 
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. 

I do but dream 
Like one that stands upon a promontory, 
And spies a far-off shore, where he would tread, 
Wishing his foot were equal with his eye ; 
And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, 

Dreams are toys : 

The baseless fabric of this vision, 

Dreamers often lie. 

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls ; 

Nay, this was but his dream. 

But this denoted a foregone conclusion ; 

'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream. 

I have a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past 
the wit of man to say what dream it was. — 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Henry VI.Pt.5. 

Winter's Tale, 

Tempest. 
Romeo and 

Juliet. 
Richard III. 



Othello. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



in. 
» 

IV. 

1. 

V. 



Ill, 



IV. 



4 

3 



39 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DREAMS— CContinued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



HAPPY 



LIFE 



PRESAGING— JOY 



BAD 



COSTLY- 
ADVICE 

DECEPTIVE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
FASHION 

FOOL'S 

MIND— BODY .. 



ALE— KINGS 
BRAINS— WEAK 



DEATH— DRUNK- 
ENNESS 

DRUNKARD 



This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep 
Did mock sad fools withal : 

We are such stuff 
As dreams are made of, and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. 

If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep, 

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand 



DRESS. 

What's this ? a sleeve ? 'tis like a demi -cannon : 
What, up and down, carved like an apple tart ? 
Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, 
Like to a censor in a barber's shop : 

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 

But not express'd in fancy ; rich not gaudy : 

For the apparel oft proclaims the man ; 

I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword 
clean ; nor believe he can have everything in him, by wear- 
ing his apparel neatly. 

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan 
The outward habit by the inward man. 

So wither'd and so wild in their attire, 

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the 
man. 

Motley's the only wear. 

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich ; 

And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 

So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 



-EXCUSE 
40 



Pericles. 



Tempest. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



DRINK. 

A quart of ale is a dish for a king. 

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking ; I 
could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom 
of entertainment. 

I have drunk but one cup to-night, and that was craftily 
qualified too, and, behold, what innovation it makes here : 
I am unfortunate in the infirmity, and dare not task my 
weakness with any more. 

Grim death ! how foul and loathsome is thine image ! 

When he is best, he is little worse than a man ; and 
when he is worst, he is little better than a beast ; 

One drunkard loves another of the name. 

Drunk ? and speak parrot ? and squabble ? swagger ? 
swear? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow? — 

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and pre- 
sently a beast ! 

You, or any man living, may be drunk at some time, 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Hamlet. 

AIVs Well That 
Ends Well. 

Pericles. 

Macbeth. 

Much Ado 
about Nothing. 

As You Like It. 



Othello. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 

Love' s Labour'' s 
Lost. 

Othello. 



IV. 



V. 



IV. 



IV. 



II. 
I. 



III. 
II. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Winter'' s Tale. iv. 



11. 



2 
3 

■a 

1 

■3 



Induction. 



IV. 



11. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



DRIN K — (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. 



ACT. 



SC. 



ENGLISHMEN 



INTEMPERANCE 



„ —KINGS 



LECHERY 



MEMORY 
MONEY 



UNKINDNESS 



WATER ... 

WINE— MODERA- 
TION 

YOUTH— AGE . 



FATHER— HUS- 
BAND ... 



Your Englishman is so expert in his drinking-. Why, 
he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drink ; he 
sweats not to overflow your Almain ; he gives your 
Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be filled. 

In England, they are most potent in potting ; your Dane, 
your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander, — Drink, 
no ! — are nothing to your English. 

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to 
steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, 
pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! 

thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to 
be known by, let us call thee — devil ! 

It hath pleased the devil, drunkenness, to give place to 
the devil, wrath : one imperfectness shews me another, 

Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is 
a devil. 

Boundless intemperance 
In nature is a tyranny ; it hath been 
The untimely emptying of the happy throne, 
And fall of many kings. 

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes 
the desire, but it takes away the performance : Therefore, 
much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery ; 
it makes him, and it mars him : it sets him on, and it 
takes him off ; it persuades him, and disheartens him ; 
makes him stand to, and not- stand to: in conclusion, 
equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves 
him. 

1 remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a 
quarrel, but nothing wherefore. 

Tavern bills are often the sadness of parting, as the 
procuring of mirth : you come in faint for want of meat, 
depart reeling with too much drink ; sorry that you have 
paid too much, and sorry that you are paid too much; 
purse and brain both empty, — the brain the heavier for 
being too light, the purse too light, being drawn of 
heaviness : 

Give me a bowl of wine ; 
In this I bury all unkindness, 

Here's that, which is too weak to be a sinner, 
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire : 

Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well-used ; 

In my youth I never did apply 

Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; 



DUTY. 

I do perceive here a divided duty : 

To you, I am bound for life, and education ; 

My life, and education, both do learn me 

How to respect you ; you are the lord of duty, 

I am hitherto your daughter: But here's my husband; 

And so much duty as my mother shew'd 

To you, preferring you before her father, 

So much I challenge, that I may profess to him 



Othello. 



Macbeth. 



Othello. 



Cymheline. 

Julius Ccesar. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



Othello. 



As You Like It 



Othello. 



n. 



iv. 3 



n. 



v. 4 

3 



iv 



ii. 



41 



CLASSIFICATION. 


DUTY— CCvntimiedJ. 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


REWARD 

SIMPLENESS 

„ —RESPECT 


Duty never yet did want his meed ; 

For never any thing- can be amiss, 
When simpleness and duty tender it. 

What poor duty cannot do, 
Noble respect takes it in might, not merit. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream 

a a 


II. 

V. 

it 


4 

i 
tt 




ECHO. 




DESCRIPTIVE OF 


The babbling gossip of the air 


Twelfth Night. 


I. 


5 


it 5? 


Sounds resembling parasites ; 
Like shrill -ton gued tapsters answering every call, 
Soothing the humour of fantastic wits ? 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






„ —HUNTING 


Echo replies, 
As if another chase were in the skies. 


tt tt 






—SINGING 


Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, 
And still the choir of echoes answer so. 


a tt 






—SORROW 


All the neighbour-caves, as seeming troubled, 

Make verbal repetition of her moans ; 

Passion on passion deeply is redoubled ; 

' Ah me ! ' she cries, and twenty times, ' woe, woe ! ' 
And twenty echoes twenty times cry so. 


tt a 






>> »> 


I tear the cave where echo lies, 
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine, 
With repetition. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


2 




ELOQUENCE. 




ACTION— IG- 
NORANT 

DESCRIPTIVE OF( 


In such business 
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant, 
More learned than their ears, 


Coriolanus. 


III. 


tt 


Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, 

To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, 
He had the dialect and different skill, 
Catching all passions in his craft of will ; 


Venus and 
Adonis. 

Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






tt it 

1 


His fair tongue (conceit's expositor) 
Delivers in such apt and gracious words, 
That aged ears play truant at his tales, 
And younger hearings are quite ravished : 
So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


II. 


T 


PLAINNESS 


Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence, 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


III. 


2 




ENEMIES. 




FRIENDS- 
CHANCE 


Fellest foes, 
Whose passions, and whose plots, have broke their sleep 
To take the one the other, by some chance, 
Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends, 
And interjoin their issues. 


Coriolanus. 


IV. 


4 


FORTUNE 


The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. 


Hamlet. 


III. 


2 


HOLLOW- 
FRIENDS 


O time most curst 1 
'Mongst all foes, that a friend should be the worst ! 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


V. 


4 



43 



CLASSIFICATION. 



ENEMIES— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



[OLLOW— 

FRIENDS 
POVERTY .. 



POWER 



BOAST 
CHARACTER 



DECLINE ... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
—PRAISE 



PAST— PRESEN r 



I rather wish yoa foes than hollow friends : 

Who not needs, shall never lack a friend ; 
And who in want a hollow friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his enemy. 

Be able for thine enemy 
Rather in power, than use : 



ENGLAND (English). 

Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,— 
Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishman. 

A strange fish ! Were I in England now, (as once I 
was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holyday fool 
there bat would give a piece of silver; there would this 
monster make a man ; any strange beast there makes a 
man : when they will not give a dolt to relieve a lame 
beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. 

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they 
have a good thing to make it too common. 

The noble isle doth want her proper limbs ; 
Her face defaced with scars of infamy, 
Her royal stock grafted with ignoble plants, 
And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf 
Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion. 

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, 
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege 
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, 
With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; 

This royal throne of kings, this sceptre' d isle, 

This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, 

This other Eden, demi-paradise ; 

This fortress, built by nature for herself 

Against infection, and the hand of war ; / 

This happy breed of men, this little world ; 

This precious stone set in the silver sea, 

Which serves it in the office of a wall, 

Or as a moat defensive to a house, 

Against the envy of less happier lands ; 

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, 

This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, 

Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth. 

O England ! — model to thy inward greatness, 
Like little body with a mighty heart, — 
What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do, 
Were all thy children kind and natural ! 

That pale, that white-faced shore, 
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides, 
And coops from other lands her islanders, 

Our countrymen 
Are men more order'd, than when Julius Caesar 
Smiled at their lack of skill, but found their courage 
Worthy his frowning at: Their discipline 
(Now mingled with their courage) will make known 
To their approvers, they are people, such 
That mend upon the world. 



Henry VI. Pt. 3. 


IV. 


1 


Hamlet. 


1 1 1. 


2 


All's [Veil That 






Ends Well 


i. 


1 


Richard II. 


1. 


3 


Tempest. 


11. 


2 


Henry IV. P t. 2. 


1. 


11 


Richard III. 


in. 


7 


Richard II. 


11. 


r 


7> )> 


>> 


>> 


Henry V. 


>> 


Cho- 
rus 


King John. 


it 


1 


Cymbeline. 


1 " 


4 



43 



CLASSIFICATION. 



ENGLAND— (Continued). 



PLAT OK POEM. ACT. SC. 



PRAISE 
REVOLUTION 



SECURE— FOES 



WORLD 



VIRTUE 



CIRCUMSTANTIAL 



CONFIRMED 

MARKS— NA- 
TURAL ... 



ALTERNATIVE- 
CHOICE... 



This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, 
Dear for her reputation through the world, 

England now is left 
To tug and scramble, and to part by th' teeth 
The unowed interest of proud-swelling state. 

This England never did (nor never shall) 
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, 
But when it first did help to wound itself. 

Come the three corners of the world in arms, 

And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue 

If England to itself do rest but true. 

England is safe, if true within itself? 

Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, 
Which he hath given for fence impregnable, 
And with their helps only defends ourselves ; 
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.] 

Hath Britain all the sun that shines ? Day, night, 
Are they not but in Britain ? I' the world's volume 
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in it ; 
In a great pool, a swan's nest : Pr'ythee, think 
There's livers out of Britain. 



ENVY. 

Men, that make 
Envy, and crooked malice, nourishment, 
Dare bite the best. 

O, what a world is this, when what is comely 
Envenoms him that bears it ! 

That monster envy, oft the wrack 
Of earned praise. 

My heart laments, that virtue cannot live 
Out of the teeth of emulation. 



EVIDENCE. 

If imputation, and strong circumstances, — 
Which lead directly to the door of truth, — 
Will give you satisfaction, you may have it. 

Confirm'd, confirm'd! O, that is stronger made 
Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron! 

This is he; 
Who hath upon him still that natural stamp : 
It was wise nature's end in the donation, 
To be his evidence now. 



EVIL (s). 



Where the greater malady is fix'd, 
The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear 
But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea, 
Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. 



Richard II. 



King John. 



11 11 



Cymbeline. 



Henry Fill. 
As You Like It. 
Pericles. 



Othello. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Cymbeline. 



King Lear. in. 



n. 



IV. 



Henry ri.Pt.fr iv. 



in. 



n. 



IV. 



J alius C&sar. \ n 



in. 



iv. 



V. 



44 






CLASSIFICATION. 


EVIL — (Continued) . 


PLAT OE POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


GENERAL— LIFE... 


Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, — 

As, to behold desert a beggar born, 
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, 

And purest faith unhappily foresworn, 
And gilded honour shamefully misplaced, 

And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, 
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, 

And strength by limping sway disabled, 
And art made tongue tied by authority, 

And folly (doctor-like) controlling skill, 


• 
























And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, 










And captive good attending captain ill : 










Tired with all these, from these would I be gone, 


Sonnet 66. 






GOOD— MAN 


Within the infant rind of this weak flower 

Poison hath residence, and med'cine power : 

For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; 

Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. 

Two such opposed kings encamp them still 

In man as well as herbs, — grace, and rude will; 

And, where the worser is predominant, 


Romeo and 








Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. 


jfuliet. 


ii. 




» 


Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live, i 










But to the earth some special good doth give ; 


>j >» 


>> 


>> 


»» 


There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 










Would men observingly distil it out : 


Henry V. 


IV. 


I 


,, ... 


Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, 










Yet grace must still look so. 


Macbeth. 


>> 


3 


» 


"Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud? 

Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows' nests ? 
Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud ? 

Or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts ? 

Or kings be breakers of their own behests ? 
But no perfection is so absolute, > 
That some impurity doth not pollute. 


Tarquin. 






»> ... 


" Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring; 

Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers ; 










The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing ; . 
What virtue breeds, iniquity devours r "~ ' 
Wediaveno good that we can say is ours, 

But ill annexed opportunity, 

Or kills his life, or else his quality. 








INFECTION- 










ADVICE 


Advice is sporting while infection breeds ; 








ORPHAN— OP- 










PRESSOR 


The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds ; 








PATIENT- 










DOCTOR 


The patient dies while the physician sleeps ; 








WIDOW— JUSTICE 


Justice is feasting while the widow weeps ; 










EXCUSES. 








FAULTS— LOVE ... 


It oft falls out, 
To have what we'd have, we speak not what we mean : 
I something do excuse the thing I hate, 


Measure for 








For his advantage, that I dearly love. 


Measure. 


II. 


4 



45 



CLASSIFICATION. 


EXCUSES— (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


FAULTS— WORSE 


Oftentimes, excusing of a fault, 
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 
As patches, set upon a little breach, 
Discredit more, in hiding of the fault, 










Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


GUILT 


All traitors : 










If their purgation did consist in words, 
They are as innocent as grace itself. — 


As You Like It. 


I. 


3 


SHAME 


What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst thou 
now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent 










shame ? 


Henry IY.Pt.i. 


IT. 


4 


SMALL— FAULTS 


Patches, set upon a little breach, 
Discredit more, in hiding of the fault, 










Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. 


King John. 


IV. 


2 




EXILE. 








DEATH— COM- 


Banishment 








PARISON 


Is death mis-termed: calling death — banishment, 
Thou cut'st my head off with a golden axe, 


Romeo and 






/ 


And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. 


Juliet. 


III. 


3 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Like one that stands upon a promontory, 
And spies a far-off shore where he would tread, 










Wishing his foot were equal with his eye, 

And chides the sea that sundeis him from thence, 


Henry VI.Pt.3. 


III. 


2 


LANGUAGE 


The language I have learned these forty years, 
My native English, now I must forego : 
And now my tongue's use is to me no more, 
Than an unstringed viol or a harp ; 
Or like a cunning instrument cased up, 










Or, being open, put into his hands, 

That knows no touch to tune the harmony. 


Richard 11. 


I. 


>> 


SUNSHINE— CON- 


That sun, that warms you here, shall shine on me ; 








SOLATION 


And those his golden beams, to you here lent, 










Shall point on me, and gild my banishment. 


>> >> 


» 


>> 




EXPERIENCE. 








HOME— ABROAD 


Seek their fortunes farther than at home, 


Taming of the 








Where small experience grows. 


Shrew. 


I. 


2 


OTHERS— FUTILE 


Who ever shunn'd by precedent 
The destined ill she must herself essay ? 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






>> » 


" Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood, 
That we must curb it upon others' proof ;" 


>> >> 






PERFECTION- 


He cannot be a perfect man, 








MAN 


. Not being tried and tutor' d in the world : 










Experience is by industry achieved, 
1 And perfected by the swift course of time : 


Tzco Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


I. 


3 


SADNESS 


I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than 










experience to make me sad ; 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


i 


WILFULNESS 


To wilful men, 










The injuries that they themselves procure, 
Must be their schoolmasters : 


King Lear. 


II. 


4 



46 



CLASSIFICATION. 



EXTRAVAGANCE. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



COMPARISON- 
SUN 

FRIENDS— LOSS 



TPEARANCE— 
HASTE 

BRAIN- 
TROUBLED 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 
BEAUTIFUL .. 



BLUE. 



EYELASHES 
INVITING ... 



-MODEST 



JUDGMENT- 
MINDS ... 



—BLIND 



LANGUAGE 

LOSS— REMEM- 
BRANCE 

PAINTER- 
BEAUTIFUL 



POWER 



■>■> 
STARS 






EXTRAVAGANCE. 

You must consider, that a prodigal course 

Is like the sun's ; but not, like his, recoverable. 

What man didst thou ever know unthrift, that was 
beloved after his means ? 



EYES. 



g troubled. 



What haste looks through his eyes ? So should he look, 
That seems to speak things strange. 

Oft the eye mistakes, the brain bein 

Her eye-lids cases to those heavenly jewels 
Begin to part their fringes of bright gold ; 
The diamonds of a most praised water 
Appear, to make the world twice rich. 

Her eyes like marigolds, had sheathed their light ; 
And, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay, 
Till they might open to adorn the day. 

White and azure, laced 
With blue of heaven's own tinct. 

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance . . . 

What an eye she has ! methinks it sounds a parley of 
provocation. 

An inviting eye ; and yet, methinks, right modest. 

Minds, sway'd by eyes, are full of turpitude. 

Our very eyes 
Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind. 

There's language in her eye. 

He, that is strucken blind cannot forget 
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost : 

But her eyes, — 
How could he see to do them ? Having made one, 
Methinks, it should have power to steal both his, 
And leave itself unfurnish'd : 

The heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, 

'Gainst w T hom the world could not hold argument, 

There lies more peril in thine eye, 
Than twenty of their swords ; 

Your eyes a^e lode-stars ; 

Her eyes in heaven 
Would through the airy region stream so bright, 
That birds would sing, and think it were not night. 

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, 
Having some business, do entreat her eyes 
To twinkle in their spheres till they return. 

What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty, 
As those two eyes become that heavenly face ? — 



Timon of 
Athens. 



in. 



IV. 



Macbeth. 

Venus and 

Adonis. 



Pericles. 

Tarquin. 

Cymbeline. 
Tempest. 

Othello. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Cymbeline. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 

Passionate Pil- 
grim. 

Romeo and 
Juliet . 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Taming of the 
Shreiv 



ii i. 



II. 
i. 



ii. 



IV. 



in. 



verse 



1 1. 



ii. 



7> »> 



IV, 



47 



CLASSIFICATION. 



EYES— fContinuedJ. 



LAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



TONGUE- 
OFFENCE 


Faster than his tongue 
Did make offence, his eye did heal it up. 


As You Like It. 


in. 


5 


TRUE— OFFENCES 


True eyes have never practised how 
To cloak offences with a cunning brow. 


Tarquin. 






WICKED 


The image of a wicked heinous fault 
Lives in his eye .... 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


WOMEN- 
EYEBROWS 


Black brows, they say, 
Become some women best ; so that there be not 
Too much hair there, but in a semi-circle, 
Or half-moon made with a pen. 


Winter's Tale. 


ir. 


I 


LEARNING 


Where is any author in the world, 
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


3 


» >> 


From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : 
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; 
They are the books, the arts, the academes, 
That shew, contain, and nourish all the world ; 


>> a 


»> 


>» 


SCORNFUL 


Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, 
Misprising what they look on ; 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


in. 


i 


SLEEP- 
AWAKE... 


Her two blue windows faintly she upheaveth, 
Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array 
He cheers the morn, and all the world relieveth : 
And as the bright sun glorifies the sky, 
So is her face illumin'd with her eye ; 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






TEARS ... 


Hers, which thro' the crystal tears gave light, 
Shone like the moon in water seen by night. 


>> >> 






„ WOOING... 


Her eyes, petitioners, to his eyes suing : 

His eyes saw her eyes as they had not seen them ; 

Her eyes woo'd still, his eyes disdained the wooing ; 


» >> 






WOOING— KISSES 


Look in mine eyeballs, there thy beauty lies : 
Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes ? 


>> >> 








FACES. 








BLUSHING 


This silent war of lilies and of roses. 


Tarquin. 






MODESTY 


Comes not that blood, as modest evidence, 
To witness simple virtue ? 


Much J do 
About Nothing. 


IV. 


i 


CHANGED 


Your changed complexions are to me a mirror, 
Which shews me mine changed too ; for I must be 
A party in this alteration, finding 
Myself thus alter'd with it. 


Winter's Tale. 


i. 


2 


CHARACTER 


This man's brow, like to a title-leaf, 
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume : 


Henry IV.Pt.2. 


>> 


I 


,, 


There's no art, 
To find the mind's construction in the face .... 


Macbeth. 


>> 


4 


,, 


I think, there's ne'er a man in Christendom 

Can lesser hide his love, or hate, than he ; 

For by his face straight shall you know his heart. 


Richard III. 


in. 


>> 


,, 


For, if he be not one that truly loves you, 
That errs in ignorance, and not in cunning, 
I have no judgment in an honest face ; 


Othello. 


>> 


2 


,, 


We know each other's faces ; for our hearts, — 
He knows no more of mine, than I of yours ; 


Richard III. 


1 
>> 


4 



48 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FACES— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



COMPLEXION 



CONTROL . . . 



DESCRIPTIVE 01*- 
CHARACTER . 



WORN... 



MEN— WOMEN ... 



>> >> 



PAINTED ... 

,, 
ROUND— FOOLISH 

SORROW ... 
TELL-TALE 



ANTIQUE- 
FABLES ... 

APPEARANCE- 
DECEPTIVE 

49 



Such war of white and red within her cheeks ! 

If she be made of white and red, 

Her faults will ne'er be known ; 
For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, 

And fears by pale-white shewn : 
Then, if she fear, or be to blame, 

By this you shall not know ; 
For still her cheeks possess the same, 

Which native she doth owe. 

They that have power to hurt and will to none, 

That do not do the thing" they most do shew, 
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, 

Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow ; 
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, 

And husband nature's riches from expense ; 
They are the lords and owners of their faces, 

Others but stewards of their excellence. 

In many's looks the false heart's history 

Is writ, in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange ; 

But heaven in thy creation did decree, 

That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell ; 

Whate'er thy thoughts or thy heart's workings be, 
Thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell, 

How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow, 

If thy sweet virtue answer not thy shew ! 

Grief hath changed me since you saw me last ; 
And careful hours, with time's deformed hand, 
Have written strange defeatures in my face : 

With a joyless smile she turns away 

The face, that map with deep impression bears 

Of hard misfortune carved in it with tears. 

Men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, 
Poor women's faces are their own faults' books. 

All men's faces are true, whatsoe'er their hands are. 
But there is never a fair woman has a true face. 

The ruddiness upon her lip is wet ; 
You'll mar it, if you kiss it ; 

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves 
another : 

Round even to faultiness. 

For the most part, 
They are foolish that are so. — ■ 

A countenance more 

In sorrow than in anger. 

Your face, my thane, is asa book, where men 
May read strange matters. — 

The whiteness in thy cheek 
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. 



FALSEHOOD. 

More strange than true. I never may believe 
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. 

O what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Love' s Labour 1 s 
Lost. 



Son?iet 94. 



» 93- 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



Tarquin. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Winter' 's Tale. 

Hamlet. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Hamlet. 

Macbeth. 

Henry IF.Pt.2. 



Midsummer 
NighVs Dream 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



w . 



11. 



in. 



V. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FALSEHOOD— fContinued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



FRIENDSHIP 
PALPABLE... 
POOR— RICH 



POLICY 



SELF-CREDITED 



TRUTH— DEVIL 

WOMEN— CON- 
SCIENCE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



VIRTUE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



ENGLAND 
EVER 



If a lie may do thee grace, 
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have. 

These lies are like the father that begets them ; gross as 
a mountain, open, palpable. 

Will poor folks lie, 
That have afflictions on them ; knowing 'tis 
A punishment, or trial ? Yes ; no wonder, 
When rich ones scarce tell true : 

To lapse in fulness 
Is sorer than to lie for need ; and falsehood 
Is worse in kings than beggars. — 

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth ; 
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, 
With windlaces, and with assays of bias, 
By indirections find directions out: 

The better act of purposes mistook 

Is, to mistake again ; though indirect, 

Yet indirection thereby grows direct, 

And falsehood falsehood cures ; as fire cools fire, 

Within the scorched veins of one new burn'd. 

Having unto truth, by telling of it, 
Made such a sinner of his memory, 
To credit his own lie. — 

Tell truth, and shame the devil. 

Women still give the lie to their consciences. 



FAME (see also glory). 

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs, 
And then grace us in the disgrace of death ; 
When, spite of cormorant devouring time, 
The endeavour of this present breath may buy 
That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, 
And make us heirs of all eternity. 

He lives in fame, that died in virtue's cause. 



FAREWELLS. 

For so long 
As he could make me with his eye or ear 
Distinguish him from others, he did keep 
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief, 
Still waving, as the fits and stirs of 's mind 
Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on, 
How swift his ship. 

Then, England's ground, farewell ; sweet soil, adieu ; 
My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet ! 

Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever. 



Henry IV.Pt.i. 



Cymleline. 



Samlet. 



King John. 

Tempest. 
Henry IV.Pt.i, 

As You Like It. 



v. 



li. 



ni. 



ii. 



in. 



III. 



Love's Lahour s 
Lost. 

Titus 

Andronicus, 



Cymleline. 
Richard II. 



ii. 



5° 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FAREWELLS— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



EVER 



FEE— KISSES 
GLORY 



HAPPINESS 



LOVER'S— 



HASTY 






RELUCTANT 



TEARS 



TIME 
WELCOMES 



Farewell ; 
We three here part, that ne'er shall meet again. 

Eyes, look your last ! 
Arms, take your last embrace ! and lips, O you 
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss 
A dateless bargain to engrossing death ! — 

Fare you well ! 
Llereafter, in a better world than this, 
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. 

For ever, and for ever, farewell, 
If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; 

The honey fee of parting tender'd is : 

Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, 
That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! 
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, 
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, 
The royal banner ; and all quality, 
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! 
And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats 
The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, 
Farewell ! 

O, now, for ever, 
Farewell the tranquil mind : farewell content ! 

Should we be taking leave 
As long a term as yet we have to live, 
The loathness to depart would grow : 

I did not take my leave of him, but had 

Most pretty things to say : ere I could tell him, 

How I would think on him, at certain hours, 

Such thoughts, and such ; or I could make him swear, 

The shes of Italy should not betray 

Mine interest and his honour ; or have charged him 

At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight, 

To encounter me with orizons, for then 

I am in heaven for him ; or ere I could 

Give him that parting kiss, which I had set 

Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father, 

And like the tyrannous breathing of the north, 

Shakes all our buds from growing. 

Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, 

Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how : 

As many farewells as be stars in heaven, 

With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them, 

He fumbles up in a loose adieu : 

And scants us with a single famish'd kiss, 

Distasted with the salt of broken tears. 

But that a joy past joy calls out on me : 
It were a grief, so brief to part with thee : 
Farewell. 

Fare ye well at once : my bosom is full of kindness ; 
and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that 
upon the least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of 
me. 

How long a time lies in one little word ! 

Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 



Richard II. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



As You Like It. i. 



Julius Caesar. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



Othello. 



Cymheline, 



in. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



IV. 



in. 



Twelfth Night.] 11. 
Richard II. 



Troilus and 
Cressida . 



in. 



51 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FASHION. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



FOLLOWERS- 
DESCRIPTIVE 



IMITATING 



OLD— NEW 



ASSURANCE 

AVOIDANCE- 
FUTILE ... 

MASTERING 

PROVIDENCE 



RESISTANCE- 
FUTILE ... 

RESOLVED 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



SELF— OTHERS 



DISCOVERED 



5* 



FASHION (see also novelty). 

Seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is ? 

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man : 

What a deformed thief this fashion is ? how giddily he 
turns about all the hot bloods, between fourteen and five- 
and-thirty ? 

Why, is not this a lamentable thing, that we should be 
thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion- 
mongers, these pardonnez moy's, who stand so much 
on the new form, that they cannot sit at ease on the old 
bench ? 

Fashions 
Whose manners still our tardy apish nation 
Limps after, in base imitation. 

Old fashions please me best ; I am not so nice, 
To change true rules for odd inventions. 



FATE. 



I'll make assurance doubly sure, 
And take a bond of fate : 



All unavoided is the doom of destiny : 

Men at some time are masters of their fates. 

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If 
it be now, 't is not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be 
now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : 

What fates impose, that men must needs abide ; 
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 

I have set my life upon a cast, 
And I will stand the hazard of the die : 



FAULTFINDERS. 

To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition, is to 
take those things for bird-bolts, that you deem cannon- 
bullets. 

I confess, it is my nature's plague 
To spy into abuses ; 

I will chide no breather in the world, but myself ; against 
whom I know most faults. 

Go to your bosom ; 
Knock there ; and ask your heart, what it doth know 
That's like my brother's fault: 



FAULTS. 

If thy offences were upon record, 

Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop, 

To read a lecture of them ? 



Much Ado 
About Nothing 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Richard II. 

Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Macbeth. 

Richard III. 
Julius C&sar. 

Hamlet. 



Richard III. 



Richard II. 



in. 



11. 



in. 



IV. 



V. 



Henry VI.Pt.3. iv. 



v. 



Twelfth Night.' 1 
Othello. 



in. 



As You Like It. ,, 

Measure for 

Measure. n. 



IV. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



EXCUSES 



FAULTFINDERS- 
OLD 

FAVOURITES- 
EXCUSED 



FULL— DESCRIP- 
TIVE 

GOOD MEN 
IN— ALL ... 



LAW 

LOVE 

RASH— REPENT- 
ANCE 

RICH 

SELF— AMEND- 
MENT 

„ —BLINDNESS 
SINGLE— VIRTUES 



SMALL— LENITY 



53 



FAULTS — (Continued). 




PLAT OE POEM. 


ACT. 


SC. 


Oftentimes, excusing of a fault, 








Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse ; 








As patches, set upon a little breach, 








Discredit more, in hiding- of the fault, 








Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


Patches set upon a little breach, 








Discredit more, in hiding of the fault, 








Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. 


>> ft 


11 


11 


All's not offence, that indiscretion finds, 








And dotage terms so. 


King Lear. 


II. 


4 


As on the finger of a throned queen 


g 






The basest jewel will be well esteem'd : 








So are those errors that in thee are seen, 








To truths translated, and for true things deem'd. 


Sonnet 96. 






There were none principal ; they were all like one 








another, as half-pence are : every one fault seeming 








monstrous, till his fellow fault came to match it. 


As You Like It. 


III. 


2 


They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; 


Measure for 






I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful ; 


Measure. 


V. 


1 


In every one of these no man is free, 








But that his negligence, his folly, fear, 








Amongst the infinite doings of the world, 








Sometimes puts forth : 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


2 


His faults lie open to the law; let them, 








Not you correct them. 


Henry VIII. 


III. 


)> 


The worst fault you have, is to be in love. 


As You Like It. 


11 


11 


Our rash faults 
Make trivial price of serious things we have, 


AIVs Well That 
Ends Well. 






Not knowing them, until we know their grave : 


V. 


11 


Faults, that are rich, are fair. 


Timon of 
Athens. 






Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put 


Much A dn 


I. 


2 


them to mending. 


J. rl t. <. L / I JT±. \JL \J 

About Nothing. 






Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear ; 






II. 


3 


Their own transgressions partially they smother : 




Tarquin. 






The dram of base 








Doth all the noble substance often out, 








To his own scandal. 


Hamlet. 


I. 


4 


Oft it chances in particular men, 








That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, 








As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty, 








Since nature cannot choose its origin,) 








By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, 








Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ; 








Or by some habit, that too much o'er-leavens 








The form of plausive manners ; — that these men, 








Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect ; 








Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, — 








Their virtues else (be they as pure as grace, 








As infinite as man may undergo,) 








Shall in the general censure take corruption 








From that particular fault : 


>» 


11 


11 


If little faults, proceeding on distemper, 








Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye, 








When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested, 








Appear before us ? — 




Henry V. 


II. 


2 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FAULTS— (Continued). 



PLAT OK POEM. ACT. SC. 



SMALL— LENITY 



UNMENTIONABLE 

USEFUL— SOME- 
TIMES 



ACTIONS ... 

APPEARANCE 



BASENESS 
DEAD 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



'Tis to be chid 
As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge, 
Pawn their experience to their present pleasure, 
And so rebel to judgment. 

There is not chastity enough in language, 
Without offence, to utter them : 

Fuji oft 'tis seen, 
Our means secures us ; and our mere defects 
Prove our commodities. — 



FEAR. 

When our actions do not, 
Our fears do make us traitors. 

Those linen cheeks of thine 
Are councillors to fear. 

Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep ; 
And, as the sleeping soldiers in th' alarm, 
Your bedded hair, like life in excrements 
Starts up and stands on end. 

Of all base passions, fear is most accursed : — 

Fears make devils of cherubims ; they never see truly. 

The sleeping, and the dead, 
Are but as pictures : 'tis the eye of childhood, 
That fears a painted devil. 

I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. 



,, — EXTREME; Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, 



—FOOLISH 



FEARLESS... 



FOLLY 



GENERAL ... 



GREATNESS 



HATE 



But coward-like with trembling terror die. 

Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle 
For girls of nine ! — 

I have almost forgot the taste of fears : 
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd 
To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair 
Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir 
As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors 
Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, 
Cannot once start me. — 

O error, soon conceived, 
Thou never comest unto a happy birth, 
But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee. 

O, these flaws and starts, 
(Impostors to true fear,) would well become 
A woman's story, at a winter's fire, 
Authorized by her grandam. 

Truly, the hearts of men are full of fear, 
You cannot reason almost with a man 
That looks not heavily, and full of dread. 

Take thy fortune's up ; 
Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art 
As great as that thou fear'st. — 

In time we hate that which we often fear. 



Antony and 

Cleopatra. i. 

Much Ado 

About Nothing, iv. 



King Lear. 



Macbeth. 



Hamlet. 



Macbeth. 



Julius Ccesar. 



Macbeth. 



Richard III. 



IV. 



m. 



Henry Yl.Pt.i. re. 

Troilus and 

Cressida. in. 

Macbeth. 

n 

Tarquin. 
Winter's Tale. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



ii. 



Twelfth Night, v. 

Antony and 

Cleopatra. i. 



54 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FEAR — (Continued). 



PLAY OE POEM. ACT. 



sc. 



INSTINCT .., 



JUDGMENT- 
CAUSE ... 

NOBILITY- 
EXEMPT 

PENITENCE 

REASON ... 



SUCCESS— MIS- 
TRUST ... 



SUSPENSE 

TYRANTS... 
WOMEN— LOVE ... 
„ —NATURAL 
WRONGS— CAUSE 



ALL— MEN 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



FORTUNE- 
FRIENDS 



He that but fears the thing he would not know- 
Hath, by instinct, knowledge, from others' eyes 
That what he fear'd is chanced. 

For the effect of judgment 
Is oft the cause of fear. 



True nobility is exempt from fear : — 

Fear, and not love, begets his penitence ; 

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing 
than blind reason stumbling without fear: To fear the 
worst, oft cures the worst. 

Mistrust of good success hath done this deed. 
O hateful error, melancholy's child ! 
Why dost thou shew to the apt thoughts of men 
The things that are not ? 

Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt : 

Doubting things go ill, often hurts more 
Than to be sure they do : 

'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 

Women fear too much, even as they love ; 

A woman naturally born to fears ; 

I am sick, and capable of fears ; 
Oppress' d with wrongs, and therefore full of fears ; 



FLATTERERS. 

Who dares 
In purity of manhood stand upright, 
And say, This man's a flatterer ? if one be, 
So are they all ; for every grize of fortune 
Is smooth' d by that below : thq learned pate 
Ducks to the golden fool : All is oblique 
There's nothing level in our cursed natures, 
But direct villainy. 

Flatter' d me like a dog: and told me I had white hairs 
in my beard, ere the black ones were there. To say, ay, 
and no, to every thing I said ! — 

You play the spaniel, 
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me ; 

If that one be prodigal, 
Bountiful they will him call : 
And with such like flattering, 
" Pity but he were a king." 
If he be addict to vice, 
Quickly him they will entice ; 
If to women he be bent, 
They have him at commandement ; 
But if fortune once do frown, 
Then farewell his great renown : 
They that fawn'd on him before, 
Use his company no more. 



Henry IV.Pt.z. i. 

Cymbeline. 



Henry FI.Pt.2. 
Richard II. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Julius Caesar. 

Measure for 
Measure. 

Cymbeline. 
Pericles. 
Hamlet. 
King John. 



rv. 



Timon of 
Athe/is. 



King Lear. 



Henry VLH. 



Passionate 
Pilgrim. 



in. 



m. 



IV. 



- J 7 



55 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FLATTERERS— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



MEN— BETRAYED 



BEAUTY 



COMPLIMENTS- 
FEIGNING 

CONDEMNATION 



COUNSEL 



DANGER 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DISLIKE 



JUSTIFIED— 
PEACE ... 

MIRROR ... 

POOR— RICH 



POWER— WOMEN 



SIN 
VANITY .. 



VILLAINY— MASK 



BANK— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 



Unicorns may be betray'd with trees, 

And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, 

Lions with toils, and men with flatterers : 



FLATTERY. 

My beauty, though but mean, 
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; 
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye 
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues : 

'Twas never merry world, 
Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment : 

Yet better thus, and known to be contemn' d, 
Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. 

O, that men's ears should be 
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery ! 

This is no flattery: these are counsellors, 
That feelingly persuade me what I am. 

Worse than the sun in March, 
This praise doth nourish agues. 

We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves ; 
And spend our flatteries, to drink those men, 
Upon whose age we void it up again, 
With poisonous spite and envy. 

I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun 
When the alarum were struck than idly sit 
To hear my nothings monster'd. 

'Tis holy sport,, to be a little vain, 

When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife. 

'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her ; 

Why should the poor be flatter'd ? 
No, let the candid tongue lick absurd pomp ; 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. 

Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their graces; 
Though ne'er so black, say, they have angels' faces. 
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 

Flattery is the bellows blows up sin ; 

He, that loves to be flattered, is worthy o' the flatterer. 

When I tell him, he hates flatterers, 

He says, he does ; being then most flattered. 

No vizor does become black villainy, 
So well as soft and tender flattery. 



56 



FLOWERS. 

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, 
Where ox -lips and the nodding violet grows ; 
Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, 
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine : 



Julius Cossar. '■ 11 



Love'' 's Labour' 1 's 
Lost. 



Twelfth Night, in 



King Lear. iv. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



As You Like It. 11 



HenrylF.Pt.i. iv 



Timon of 
Athens. 



Coriolanus. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 

As You Like It. 



Hamlet. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Pericles. 

Timon of 
Athens. 

Julius C&sar. 
Pericles. 



11. 



in. 



11. 



IV. 



Midsummer 

Nigh fs Dream, n. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FLO WERS— ( Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



CARNATIONS- 
GILLYFLOWERS 

DAFFODILS— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF 

DISTILLED 

GRAVE 



LANGUAGE 



MEMENTO— LOVE 

OXLIPS— LILIES ... 

PLEASURES 
PRIMROSES 

PROPERTIES 

PURPLES 

RAIN 

ROSEMARY— RUE 
VIOLETS 



SAGE— FOOL 
57 



The fairest flowers o' the season 
Are our carnations, and streak'd gillyflowers, 
Which some call nature's bastards : 

Daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty ; 

Flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet, 
Leese but their shew ; their substance still lives sweet. 

With fairest flowers, 
W r hile summer lasts, and I live here 
I'll sweeten thy sad grave : Thou shalt not lack 
The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor 
The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor 
The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, 
Out-sweeten'd not thy breath : 

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance ; pray you, 
love, remember; and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. 

Here's flowers for you ; 
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram ; 
The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, 
And with him rises weeping ; these are flowers 
Of middle summer, and, I think, they are given 
To men of middle age : 

Lo ! in this hollow cradle take thy rest, 

My throbbing heart shall rock thee day and night : 
There shall not be one minute in an hour, 
Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love's flower. 

Bold oxlips, and 
The crown-imperial ; lilies of all kinds, 
The flower-de-luce being one ! 

Flowers are like the pleasure of the world ; 

Pale primroses, 
That die unmarried, ere they can behold 
Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady 
Most incident to maids ; 

Within the infant rind of this small flower 

Poison hath residence, and med'eine power]: 

For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; 

Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. 

Long purples, 
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : 

The moon, methinks, looks with a watery eye ; 
And when she weeps, weeps every little flower, 
Lamenting some enforced chastity. 

Rosemary and rue : these keep 
Seeming, and savour, all the winter long : 

Violets, dim, 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
Or Cytherea's breath ; 



FOLLY. 

Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, 
As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote ; 



Winter's Tale. 



»> >> 



Sonnet 5. 



Cymieline. 



Hamlet. 



IV. 



Winter's Tale. „ 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



Winter's Tale. 
Cymieline. 



Winter's Tale. „ 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Hamlet. iv. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream m. 



Winter's Tale. 



» >> 



IV. 






CLASSIFICATION. 



FOLLY— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



SAGE— FOOL 



SKILL 
SUN— SIMILE 

WISDOM ... 



DIGESTION- 
HEALTH 

DISCOURSE- 
FASTING 

DISTURBED 



EAGER 

FASTING— 
MALADIES 

FEASTS 

„ —WELCOMES 



HOME— ABROAD 



TEMPER 



WELCOMES 



/ 



WORMS 



58 



Since all the power thereof it doth apply, 
To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity. 

None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd, 
As wit turn'd fool : folly, in wisdom hatch'd 
Hath wisdom's warrant, and the help of school ; 
And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool. 

Since the little wit, that fools have, was silenced, the 
little foolery, that wise men have, makes a great shew. 

Folly (doctor -like) controlling skill, 

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun ; it 
shines everywhere. 

Full oft we see 
Cold 'wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. 



FOOD (meals), 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 



Now, good digestion wait on appetite, 
And health on both ! 



Discourse is heavy, fasting; 

In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest 

To be disturb' d, would mad or man, or beast : 

Unquiet meals make ill digestions, 

With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder : 

Abstinence engenders maladies. 

Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods. 

The feast is sold 
That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making, 
'Tis given with welcome : 

To feed were best at home ; 
From thence, the sauce to meet is ceremony ; 
Meeting were bare without it. 

The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then 
We pout upon the morning, are unapt 
To give or to forgive ; but, when we have stuff'd 
These pipes and these conveyances of our blood 
With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls 
Than in our priest-like fasts : 

Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart. 

I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear. 

Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast. 

Good meat, sir, is common ; that every churl affords. 
And welcome more common; for that's nothing but words. 

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. 

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king ; 
and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. 

Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all 
creatures else, to fat us : and we fat ourselves for maggots. 
Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable ser- 
vice ; two dishes, but to one table ; that's the end. 



.4s You Like It, 
Sonnet 66. 

Twelfth Night, 

All's Well That 
Ends Well, 



Macbeth. 



Cymbeline. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



Richard II. 

Love's Labour's 
Lost. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



Macbeth. 



in. 



Coriolanus 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



Hamlet. 



111. 



11. 

IV. 



in. 



in. 
•a 



IV. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FOOLS. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





FOOLS. 








BRAINLESS- 
DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Not Hercules 
Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none : 


Cymheline. 


IV. 


2 


CREDULOUS 


Thus credulous fools are caught ; 
And many worthy and chaste dames, 
All guiltless meet reproach. — 


Othello. 


ii 


I 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Fools as gross 
As ignorance made drunk. 


n 


in. 


3 


n >> 


O gull ! O dolt ! 
As ignorant as dirt ! 


n 


v. 


2 


m » 


A fool, 
That seest a game played home, the rich stake drawn, 
And takest it all for jest. 


Winter's Tale. 


i. 


ii 


n n 


Either thou art most ignoiant by age, 
Or thou wert born a fool. 


n 11 


ii. 


I 


n » 


You are made 
Rather to wonder at the things you hear, 
Than to work any. 


Cymheline. 


V. 


3 


n » 


A lunatic, lean-witted fool, 
Presuming on an ague's privilege, 


Richard II. 


II. 


i 


DULNESS— WIT ... 


The dulness of the fool is the whetstone of his wits. — 
Call me not fool till Heaven hath sent me fortune : i 


As You Like' It. 


I. 


2 


FORTUNE 


11 ii 


II. 


7 


SAGE 


Pity, that fools may not speak wisely, what wise men 
do foolishly. 


ii ii 


I . 


2 


,, 


Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the 
better fool. 


Twelfth Night. 


11 


5 


SICK 


With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and 
prove an ass. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


V. 


i 


SLANDER 


There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do 
nothing but rail ; 


Twelfth Night. 


I. 


5 


VIRTUOUS 


He was a fool ; 
For he would needs be virtuous : 


Henry Fill. 


II. 


2 


WIFE 


What should such a fool 
Do with so good a wife? 


Othello. 


V. 


ii 


WISE— MEN 


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows 
himself to be a fool. 


As You Like It. 


V. 


I 


n » 


None are so surely caught, when they are catched, 
As wit turned fool : 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


11 


2 


WIT 


This fellow's wise enough to play the fool ; 
And, to do that well, craves a kind of wit : 


Twelfth Night. 


III. 


I 




FOPS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


A man in all the world's new fashion planted, 
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain ; 

One, whom the music of his own vain tongue 
Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony ; 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


I. 


I 


n n 


I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and 
point-devise companions, such rackers of orthography, 


11 ii 


V. 


ii 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



FOPS — (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 


His humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his 
tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and 
his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


v. 


I 


>> >> 


The ladies call him, sweet; 
The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. 
This is the flower that smiles on every one 
To show his teeth as white as whale his bone : 


» >> 


>J 


2 


>> " 


This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve ; 
Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve : 
He can carve too, and lisp. 


» >> 


>> 


j> 


>> » 


This is he 
That kiss'd away his hand in courtesy ; 
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, 
1 hat, when he plays at tables, chides the dice 
In honourable terms ; nay, he can sing 
A mean most meanly ; and, in ushering, 
Mend him who can. 


>} t> 


If 


?> 


>> >> 


Dost know this water-fly ? 


Hamlet. 


»> 


>> 


—RICH 


'Tis a vice to know him. He hath much land, and 
fertile ; let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall 
stand at the king's mess : 'T is a chough ; but, as I say, 
spacious in the possession of dirt. 


>> 


*» 


>> 


„ —SHALLOW 


Thus has he (and many more of the same bevy, that, 
I know, the drossy age dotes on,) only got the tune of the 
time, and outward habit of encounter ; a kind of yesty 
collection, which carries them through and through the 
most fond and winnowed opinions ; and do but blow them 
to their trials, the bubbles are out. 


j> 


>> 


>> 


>> »» 


There can be no kernel in this light nut ; the soul of 
this man is his clothes : trust him not in matter of heavy 
consequence ; 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


II. 


5 




FORGIVENESS. 








GRANTING 


These words have turn'd my hate to love; 
And I forgive and quite forget old faults, 


Henry YI.Pt.$. 


III. 


3 


,, 


Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, 
Yet, with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury 
Do I take part : the rarer action is 
In virtue than in vengeance ; 


Tempest. 


V. 


i 


>> 


The power that I have on you, is to spare you ; 
The malice towards you, to forgive you : 


Cymbeline. 


>> 


5 


IMPLORING 


For ever will I kneel upon my knees, 
And never see day, that the happy sees, 
Till thou give joy ; until thou bid me joy, 


Richard II. 


>? 


3 


REPEATED 


Twice saying pardon, doth not pardon twain, 
But makes one pardon strong. 


f> >> 


>> 


>> 




FORTUNE (see also misfortune). 








COMING— SIGN ... 


When fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 


King John. 


III. 


4 



6o 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FORTUNE— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DECLINE— AGE 



— FRIENDS 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
—GIFTS 

FICKLE 



FLATTERY 



FOOLS 

HEIGHT— DE- 
CLINE ... 



INCOMPLETE— 
EVER ... 



INDEPENDENCE- 
SPIRIT 



INEQUALITY 



JUDGMENTS- 
INFLUENCED .., 



LOSS— FRIENDS ... 



LOVE— INFLU- 
ENCE ... 



MISFORTUNE- 
INDIFFERENCE 



OPPORTUNITY 



6l 



It is still her use, 
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, 
To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow, 
An age of poverty ; 

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. 

Doth fortune play the huswife with me now ? 

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the linea- 
ments of nature. 

O fortune, fortune ! all men call thee fickle : 
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him, 
That is renown'd for faith? 

Every grize of fortune 
Is smooth'd by that below : the learned pate 
Ducks to the golden fool : 

Call me not fool till Heaven hath sent me fortune : 

Now prosperity begins to mellow, 
And drop into the rotten mouth of death. 

We, at the height, are ready to decline. 

Will fortune never come with both hands full, 
But write her fair words still in foulest letters ? 
She either gives a stomach, and no food, — 
Such are the poor, in health ; or else a feast, 
And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich, 
That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 

Blessed are those 
Whose blood and judgment are so well co-mingled, 
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger 
To sound what stop she pleases : 

Let us sit and mock the good housewife, Fortune, from 
her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed 
equally. 

I see men's judgments are 
A parcel of their fortunes ; and things outward 
Do draw the inward quality after them, 
To suffer all alike. 

When Fortune, in her shift and change of mood, 
Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependants, 
Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top, 
Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, 
Not one accompanying his declining foot. 

'Tis not strange, 
That even our loves should with our fortunes change ; 
For, 'tis a question left us yet to prove, 
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. 

Fortune knows, 
We scorn her most, when most she offers blows . . . 

I know not, 
What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face ; 
But in my bosom shall she never come, 
To make my heart her vassal. 

[Though fortune's malice overthrow my state, 
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.] 

There is a tide in the affairs of men, 

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; 



Merchant of 
Venice. 

Tim on of 
Athens. 

Henry V. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Tim on of 
Athens. 



Henry IV.Pt.2. „ 



Hamlet. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Tim on of 
Athens. 



Hamlet. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



>> »> 



IV. 

i. 
v. 



As You Like It. i. 



in. 



IV. 



As You Like It. 11. 

Richard III. J iv. 
Julius Ca?sar. ,, 



As You Like It. i 



in. 



in. 



ii. 



Henry FI.Pt.3J iv. 



in. 2 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FORTUNE— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT 



SC. 



OPPORTUNITY 

POOR 

PRIDE 



UNDESERVED 



WEALTH— COM- 
PETENCY 

WISDOM— POWER 



WOMEN 



ABSENT 



ACC: DENTS- 
FOES 



ANIMALS— IN- 
STINCT ... 

ASSISTANCE 



CONFIDENCE- 
WITHHELD 

DANGEROUS 



Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. 

Men at some time are masters of their fates : 

Fortune, that arrant whore, 
Ne'er turns the key to the poor. — 

Not nature 
To whom all sores la)'- siege, can bear great fortune, 
But by contempt of nature. 

'Tis a common proof, 
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber upward turns his face : 
But when he once attains the upmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
By which he did ascend : 

Such a nature, 
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow 
V hich he treads on at noon : 

Man}- dream not to find, neither deserve, 
And yet are steep' d in favours ; 

Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steer'd . 

It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the 
mean ; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but com- 
petency lives longer. 

Wisdom and fortune combating together, 
If that the former dare but what it can, 
No chance may shake it. 

Her benefits are mightily misplaced : and the bountiful 
blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women, 

for those that she makes fair, she scarce makes 

honest ; and those that she makes honest, she makes very 
ill-favour'dly. 



FRIENDS. 

With interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies ; 
that they have seemed to be together, though absent ; 
shook hands, as over a vast ; and embraced, as it were, 
from the ends of opposed winds. 

Friends now fast sworn, 
Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, 
Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise, 
Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love 
Unseparable, shall within this hour, 
On a dissention of a doit, break out 
To bitterest enmity : 

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. 

I love and honour him ; 
But must not break my back, to heal his finger : 

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, 
If thou but think'st him wrong'd, and makest his ear 
A stranger to thy thoughts. 

What viler thing upon the earth, than friends, 
Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends! 



Julius Ccesar. iv 



>5 »» 

King Lear. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



Cymleline. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



IT interns Tale. 



Coi'iolanus. 



Timon of 
Athens. 



Othello. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



ii. 



IV. 



fulius Ccesar. 11. 



Coriolanus. 



v. 

IV. 



III. 



As You Like It. i. 



IV. 

ii. 



in. 



IV. 



62 



CLASSIFICATION. 


FRIENDS— (Continue 


>;• 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DISPOSITIONS- 
ALIKE 


In companions 
That do converse and waste the time together, 
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, 
There must be needs a like proportion 
Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit ; 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


III. 


4 


>> » 


Honourable metal may be wrought 
From that it is disposed : Therefore 'tis meet 
That noble minds keep ever with their likes : 
For who so firm, that cannot be seduced ? 


Julius Ccesar. 


I. 


2 


FALSE— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 


His friends, like physicians, 
Thrive, give him over ; 


Timon of 
Athens. 


III. 


3 


>> 


Who should be trusted now, when one's right hand 
Is perjured to the bosom? 


Tiro Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


V. 


4 


>j 


time most curst ! 
'Mongst all foes, that a friend should be the worst ! 


n >> 


)> 


i> 


FLATTERING 


Every one that flatters thee, 
Is no friend in misery. 
Words are easy like the wind ; 
Faithful friends are hard to find. 




Passionate Pil- 
grim. 


verse 


*7 


FORBEARANCE ... 


A friend should bear his friend's infirmi 


ties. 


Julius Casar. 


IV. 


3 


FORGOTTEN 


Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, 
That dost not bite so nigh 
As benefits forgot : 
Though thou the waters warp, 
Thy sting is not so sharp 
As friend remember' d not. 


As You Like It. 


11. 


1 


FORSWEARING ... 


From hence, 
I'll love no friend, since love breeds such offence. 


Othello. 


in. 


3 


GOODS— IN COM- 
MON 


We are born to do benefits : and what better or properer 
can we call our own, than the riches of our friends ? 


Timon of 
Athens. 


1. 


2 


HOLLOW— FOES... 


I rather wish you foes than hollow friends : 


Henry VI. Pt. 3. 


IV. 


1 


LOVE 


In love, 

Who respects friends ? 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


V. 


4 


NUMBER 


Happier is he that has no friend to feed, 
Than such as do even enemies exceed. 


Timon of 
Athejis. 


I. 


2 


OLD— NEW 


To wail friends lost, 
Is not by much so wholesome, profitable, 
As to rejoice at friends but newly found. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


V. 


if 


POOR— FORTUNE 


The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. 


Ha jnlet. 


III. 


tt 


TRUE 


The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; 
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. 


11 


I. 


3 


it 


He that is thy friend indeed, 
He will help thee in thy need, 
If thou sorrow, he will weep ; 
If thou wake, he cannot sleep : 
Thus of every grief in heart 
He with thee doth bear a part. 


Passionate Pil- 
griin . 


verse 


17 


TRUTH— TRIAL ... 


Now comes the sick hour, that his surfeit made ; 
Now shall he try his friends that fiatter'd him. 


Richard II. 


11. 


2 


TRUSTING- 
ADVICE 


Keep thy friend 
Under thy own life's key : 




All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


1. 


r 



63 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FRIENDS— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



USE... 



WEALTH- 
POVERTY 



ASSERTING 
CEREMONY 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



FALSE 



FEIGNED ... 
FLATTERY 
FOOLISH ... 

FORGOTTEN 



LOANS— IN- 
TEREST.. 



What need we have any friends, if we should never 
have need of them ? they were the most needless creatures 
living, should we ne'er have use for them ; and would 
most resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases, that 
keep their sounds to themselves. 

Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels, 

Be sure, you be not loose ; for those you make friends, 

And give your hearts to, when they once perceive 

The least rub in your fortunes, fall away 

Like water from ye, never found again 

But where they mean to sink ye. 

Every man will be thy friend, 
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend : 
But if store of crowns be scant, 
No man will supply thy want. 

Who not needs, shall never lack a friend ; 
And who in want a hollow friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his enemy. 



FRIENDSHIP. 

You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful ; 
I never was, nor never will be false. 

Ceremony 
Was but devised at first, to set a gloss 
On faint deeds, hollow welcomes, 
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shewn ; 
But where there is true friendship, there needs none. 

We grew together, 
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted; 
But yet a union in partition, 
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : 
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart ; 
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, 
Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. 

Who'd be so mock'd with glory ? or to live 

But in a dream of friendship ? 

To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, 

But only painted, like his varnish'd friends ? 

Friendship's full of dregs : 

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, 

And follows but for form, 
Will pack, when it begins to rain, 

And leave thee in the storm. 

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly ! 

There is flattery in friendship. 

The amity, that wisdom knits not, folly may easily 
untie. 

Is all the counsel, that we two have shared, 
The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, 
When we have chid the hasty-footed time 
For parting us, — O, and is all forgot? 
All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? 

When did friendship take 
A breed for barren metal of his friend ? 



Timon of 
Athens. 



Henry Fill. n. 



Passionate Pil- 
grim, verse 



Hamlet. 



Richard IN. 



: 



Timon of 
Athens. 



m. 



Timon of 
Athens. 



Ki?ig Lear. 

As You Like It. 

Henry V. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



IV. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream in. 



IV. 

i. 



ii. 

5) 
III. 

II. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream, in. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



64 



CLASSIFICATION. 



FRIENDSHIP— CContinued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 






LOVE 

PLATONIC— DAN- 
GER 


Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of love : 

To mingle friendship far, is mingling bloods. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 

Winter' 1 s Talc. 


ii. 
i. 


I 

2 


WICKED— MEN ... 


The love of wicked men converts to fear; 

That fear, to hate ; and hate turns one, or both, 

To worthy danger, and deserved death. 


Rkliard II. 


v. 


I 




FUTURE. 








AFTER-DEATH— 
UNKNOWN ... 


Who would fardels bear, 
To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; 
But that the dread of something after death, — 
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn 
No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; . 
And makes us rather bear those ills we have, / 
Than fly to others that we know hot of ? ' 


Hamlet. 


in. 


I 


„ DESCRIPTIVE 
OF 


To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; 

This sensible warm motion to become 

A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit 

To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 

In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; 

To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, 

And blown with restless violence round about 

The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst 

Of those, that lawless and uncertain thoughts 

Imagine howling! — 


Measure for 
Measure. 


?> 


>» 


KNOWLEDGE- 
DESIRE ... 


O, that a man might know 
The end of this day's business, ere it come ! 
But it sufficeth, that the day will end, 
And then the end is known. — 


Julius Caisar. 


V, 


>> 


y> 5) 


O Heaven, that one might read the book 
of fate ; 
And see the revolution of the times. 


Henry lF.Pt.2. 


in. 


n 


„ —DESPAIR... 


O, if this were seen, 
The happiest youth, — viewing his progress through, 
What perils past, what crosses to ensue, — 
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. 


» »> 


>> 


53 


TIMES— PRO- 
PHESY 


There is a history in all men's lives, 
Figuring the nature of the times deceased : 
The which observed, a man may prophesy, 
With a near aim, of the main chance of things 
As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, 
And weak beginnings lie intreasured. 


» >> 


>> 


>} 


UNCERTAIN 


What's to come, is still unsure : 


Ticelfth Night. 


ii. 


3 


,, 


JWe know what we are, but know not what we may be. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


5 




GENTLEMEN. 








ADAM— PROFES- 
SION 


There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, 
and grave-makers ; they hold up Adam's profession. 


>> 


V. 


i 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


He is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find 
in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. 


j> 


>> 


2 


—POOR 


Lord of thy presence and no land beside ? 


King John. 


I. 


I 






65 



CLASSIFICATION. 


GENTLEMEN— fContinvedJ. 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DEVIL (THE) 


The prince of darkness is a gentleman ; 


King Lear. 


in. 


4 


EDUCATION 


As you are certainly a gentleman ; thereto 
Clerk-like, experienced, which no less adorns 
Our gentry, than our parents' noble names 
In whose success we are gentle, — 


Winter's Tale. 


i. 


2 


PLEBEIAN— SON... 


He's a mad yeoman, that sees his son a gentleman 
before him. 


King Lear. 


in. 


6 


» 


Since every Jack became a gentleman, 
There's many a gentle person made a Jack. 


Richard III. 


i. 


3 


YOUNG— DE- / 
SCRIPTIVE OF..I 


He made use and fair advantage of his days ; 
His years but young, but his experience old ; 
His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe ; 
And, in a word, (for far behind his worth 
Come all the praises that I now bestow,) 
He is complete in feature, and in mind, 
With all good grace to grace a gentleman. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


ii. 


4 




GENTLENESS. 








BLESSINGS 


You bear a gentle mind, and heavenly blessings 
Follow such creatures. 


Henry VIII. 


ii. 


3 


POWER 


Your gentleness 
More than your force move us to gentleness. 


As You Like It. 


5J 


7 


WANT 


I must confess 
I thought you lord of more true gentleness. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


>) 


3 


WEAKNESS 


This milky gentleness, and course of yours, 
Though I condemn it not, yet, under pardon, 
You are much more attack'd for want of wisdom, 
Than praised for harmful mildness. 


King Lear. 


I. 


4 


„ DESCRIPTIVE 
OF 


One of those gentle ones, that will use the devil himself 
with courtesy : 


Twelfth Night. 


IV. 


2 




GHOSTS. 








ADDRESSING 


Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! — 
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, 
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, 
Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, 
Thou comest in such a questionable shape, 
That I will speak to thee ; 


Hamlet. 


I. 


4 


COCK-CROW 


The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, 
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat 
Awake the god of day ; and, at his warning, 
Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, 
The extravagant and erring spirit hies 
To his confine : 


jj 


I. 


i 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


We do it wrong, being so majestical, 
To offer it the show of violence ; 
For it is, as the air, invulnerable, 
And our vain blows malicious mockery. 


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Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; 
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes 
Which thou dost glare with ! 


Macleth. 


III. 


4 



66 



CLASSIFICATION. 


GHOSTS — (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


RIDICULED 


I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
. . . Why, so can I ; or so can any man : 
But will they come, when you do call for them ? 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


in. 


I 


VISITING— EARTH 


The times have been, 
That, when the brains were out, the man would die, 
And there an end : but now, they rise again, 
With twenty mortal murderers on their crowns, 
And push us from our stools : 


Macbeth. 


n 


4 


»> >> 


If charnel-houses, and our graves, must send 
Those that we bury, back, our monuments 
Shall be the maws of kites. 


>> 


>> 


55 




GIFTS. 




FORTUNE- 
NATURE 


Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the linea- 
ments of nature. 


As You Like It. 


!. 


2 


„ —WOMEN ... 


Her benefits are mightily misplaced : and the bountiful 
blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women. ' 


» n 


tt 


5> 


GIVER— VALUE ... 


To the noble mind, 
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. 


Hamlet. 


(II. 


I 


„ DESCRIPTIVE 
OF 


I see her yet; 
Her pretty action did outsell her gift, 
And yet enrich'd it too : She gave it me, and said 
She priz'd it once. 


Cymbeline, 


IT. 


4 


HEAVEN— COM- 
PLAINT 


O you gods ! 
Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, 
And snatch them straight away ? We, here below, 
Recall not what we give, and therein may 
Vie honour with yourselves. 


Pericles. 


III. 


I 


KNOWLEDGE- 
BEAUTY 


If ladies be but young and fair, 
They have the gift to know it ; 


As You Like It. 


II. 


7 


NATURE 


Nature is fine in love : and, where 'tis fine, 
It sends some precious instance of itself 
After the thing it loves. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


5 


„ —USE ... 


Nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor, 
Both thanks and use. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


I. 


1 


»> ••• 


Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend; 
And being frank, she lends to those are free. 


Sonnet 4. 






POWER— WOMEN 


Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 

More than quick words, do move a woman's mind. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


Ill, 


35 


RICH MEN 


Rich men deal gifts, 
Expecting in return twenty for one ? 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 


RELUCTANT 


I here do give thee that with all my heart, 
Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart 
I would keep from thee. — 


Othello. 


I. 


4 


SUPERFLUOUS ... 


Thou makest a testament 
As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more 
To that which had too much. 


As You Like It. 


II. 


1 


VALUE 


Value dwells not in particular will ; 
It holds its estimate and dignity 
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself 
As in the prizer : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


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2 



67 



CLASSIFICATION. 


GIFTS — ( Con tin ued) . 




PLAT OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


VALUE— LOVE ... 


She prizes not such trifles as these are : 

The gifts, she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd 

Up in my heart, which I have given already, 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


—LOST ... 


What we have we prize not to the worth, 
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, 
Why, then we rack the value, then we find 
The virtue, that possession would not shew us. 


Much Ado 
Alout Nothing. 


)> 


i 


WOMEN— TEARS 


A woman's gift, 
To rain a shower of commanded tears, 


Tamiyig of the 
Shrew 


Induction 


„ —MEN ... 


Men take women's gifts for impudence. 


Pericles. 


11. 


3 




GLORY. 








CRIMES 

/ 


Out of question, so it is sometimes ; 
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes ; 
When, for fame's sake, for praise, and outward part, 
We bend to that the working of the heart : 


Love's Lal-our's 
Lost. 


IV. 


i 


DESCRIPTIVE OB 


Glory is like a circle in the water, 

Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, 

Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. 




HenryYI.Pt.i. 


I. 


2 


GREAT— LITTLE- 


So doth the greater glory dim the less : 
A substitute shines, brightly as a king, 
Until a king be by, and then his state 
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook 
Into the main of waters. 


Merchant of 
Fenice. 


V. 


I 


WAR— RIDICULED 


Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick 
me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a 
leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of 
a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? 
No. What is honour ? A word. What is in that word 
honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! 
— Who hath it ? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he 
feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible 
then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the 
living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — 
therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, 
and so ends my catechism. 


Henry IF.Pt.i. 


>> 


jj 


WRETCHEDNESS 


0, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us I 




Thrum of 

Athens. 


IV. 


2 




GOLD (SEE MONEY OR RICHES). 






GOOD. 








ABUSE 


Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


3 


EVERYTHING . . . 


Tongues in trees, books in the running b rooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in even-thing. 


As You Like It. 


>> 


i 


EVIL 


Gather honey from the weed, 
And make a moral of the devil himself. 


Henry V. 


IV. 


?» 


,, 


There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 
Would men observingly distil it out ; 




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>> 


>> 



68 



CLASSIFICATION. 


GOOD— (Continued). 


PLAY OB POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


EVIL 


Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell ; 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


3 


,, 


Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, 
Yet grace must still look so. 


)> 


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>> 


,, 


" Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring; 

Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers ; 

The adder hisses where the sweet bird sings ; 
What virtue breeds, iniquity devours : 
We have no good that we can say is ours, 

But ill annexed opportunity, 

Or kills his life, or else his quality. 


Tarquin. 






,, 


" Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud ? 

Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows' nests ? 
Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud ? 

Or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts ? 

Or kings be breakers of their own behests ? 
But no perfection is so absolute, 
That some impurity doth not pollute. 


a 






,, 


Captive good attending captain ill : 


Sonnet 66. 






,, ... 


Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live, 
But to the earth some special good doth give ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


>> 


NAME 


Good alone 
Is good, without a name ; 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


)) 


>j 


BOLD 


GOODNESS (Kindness). 

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


III. 


I 


CRUELTY 


I must be cruel, only to be kind : 


Hamlet. 


5> 


4 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


The milk of human kindness, 


Macbeth. 


I. 


5 


PHILANTHROPY... 


Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none : 


All's Well That 






PRAISE 


To match thy goodness ? My life will be too short, 
And every measure fail me. 


Ends Well. 
King Lear. 


J) 

IV. 


i 

7 


RELATIVES 


A little more than kin, and less than kind. 


Hamlet. 


I. 


2 


REVENGE 


Kindness, nobler ever than revenge, 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


3 


UNFORTUNATE ... 


To some kind of men 
Their graces serve them but as enemies ? 


J3 » 


II. 


>> 


WOMEN— INFLU- 
ENCE 


When a world of men 
Could not prevail with all their oratory, 
Yet hath a woman's kindness overruled : — 


Henry VI. Pt. i. 


}> 


2 


BRAINLESS— DE- 
SCRIPTIVE OF 


GORMANDS. 

He wears his wit in his belly, and his guts in his head, 


Troilus and 


1 




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Fat paunches have lean pates ; and dainty bits 
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. 


Cressida. 

Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


II. 
I. 


2 

I 




GOVERNMENT. 




MYSTERY 


There is a mystery (with whom relation 
Durst never meddle) in the soul of state ; 
Which hath an operation more divine, 
Than breath, or pen, can give expressure to : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


3 



6 9 



CLASSIFICATION. 



GOVERNMENT— CContinuedJ. 



PLAY OK POEM. ACT. SC. 



I 



OBEDIENCE 

POWER— KNOW. 
LEDGE ... 



RULERS— YOUNG 



ABUSE— POWER 



AIM— TRUE 



BURDEN 



CEREMONY- 
FLATTERY 



DEATH ... 
DECLINE ... 



DESCRIPTIVE Ol 



FALLEN- 
FRIENDS 



Let them obey that know not how to rule ; 

The providence that's in a watchful state, 
Knows almost every gTain of Plutus' gold ; 
Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps ; 
Keeps place with thought, and almost like the gods 
Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. 

Wo to that land, that's govern'd by a child ! 



Henry Fl.Pt.2. v. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Richard III. 



GREATNESS. 

The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins 
Remorse from power : 

Be just, and fear not : 
Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy country's, 
Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, 
Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. 

Too much honour: 
O, 'tis a burden, Cromwell, 'tis a burden, 
Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven. 

O, be sick, great greatness, 
And bid thy ceremony give thee cure ! 
Think'st thou, the fiery fever will go out 
With titles blown from adulation? 
Will it give place to flexure and low bending ? 
Canst thou, when thou command' st the beggar's knee, 
Command the health of it ? 

Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of 
Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole ? 

The soul and body rive not more in parting, 
Than greatness going off. 

I have touch' d the highest point of all my greatness ; 
And, from that full meridian of my glory, 
I haste now to my setting : I shall fall 
Like a bright exhalation in the evening, 
And no man see me more. 

These are stars, indeed ; 
And, sometimes, falling ones. 

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some 
have greatness thrust upon them. 

Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it ? 
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, 
And is not careful what they mean thereby ; 
Knowing that with the shadow of his wings, 
He can at pleasure stint their melody : 

What the declined is, 
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others, 
As feel in his own fall : for men, like butterflies, 
Shew not their mealy wings, but to the summer ; 
And not a man, for being simply a man, 
Hath any honour ; but honour for those honours 
That are without him, as place, riches^ favour, 
Prizes of accident as oft as merit. 

The great man down, you mark his favourite flies ; 



Julius Ccesar, 



Henry Fill. 



» >> 



in. 



n. 



ii. 



in. 



Henry V. iv. i 



Hamlet. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Henry Fill. 



jj » 



v. 



IV. 



III. 



IV. 



Twelfth Night, n. 



Titus 

Andronicus. iv. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Tim on of 
Athens. 



in. 



IV. 



ii 



CLASSIFICATION. 


GREATNESS— (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


FALLEN- 
FRIENDS 


Men shut their doors against a setting sun. 


Tim on of 
Atheiis. 


1. 


2 


>> >> 


'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune, 
Must fall out with men too : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


3 


,, 


But yesterday, the word of Caesar might 
Have stood against the world : now lies he there, 
And none so poor to do him reverence. 


Julius Caesar. 


}> 


2 


,, 


O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! 
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, 


j) >) 


:> 


3) 


„ 


No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours, 
Or gild again the noble troops, that waited 
Upon my smiles. 


Henry Fill. 


>> 


)> 


,, 


I have ventured, 
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 
This many summers in a sea of glory ; 
But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride 
At length broke under me ; and now has left me, 
Weary, and old with service, to the mercy 
Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. 


n }} 


>> 


)> 


,, 


O now, after 
So many courses of the sun enthroned, 
Still growing in a majesty and pomp, — the which 
To leave is a thousand-fold more bitter, than 
'Tis sweet at first to acquire, — 


>> >> 


IT. 


3 


„ —FAREWELL 


Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! 


n ft 


III. 


2 


„ —HAPPINESS 


His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; 
For then, and not till then, he felt himself, 
And found the blessedness of being little : 
And to add greater honours to his age 
Than man could give him, he died, fearing God. 


■>■> it 


IV. 


>> 


FAVOURS— UN- 
CERTAINTY ... 


O momentary grace of mortal men, 
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God ! 
Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks, 
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ; 
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down 
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 


Richard III. 


III. 


4 


>i >> 


Poor wretches, that depend 
On greatness' favour, dream, as I have done ; 
Wake, and find nothing. — 


Cy ml dine. 


V. 


>> 


HIDDEN— DE- 
SCRIPTIVE OF... 


To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to 
move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which piti- 
fully disaster the cheeks. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


7 


LOST 


I better brook the loss of brittle life, 

Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ! 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


V. 


4 


LOVE 


I had rather be a toad, 
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, 
Than keep a corner in the thing I love, 
For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones ; 
Prerogatived are they less than the base : 
'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death ; 
Even then this forked plague is fated to us, 
When we do quicken. 


Othello. 


III. 


3 


LOWLINESS- 
CONTENT 


I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 


Henry Till. 


11. 


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71 



CLASSIFICATION. 


GREATNESS— (Omixrmed). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


MODESTY 

• 

SELF— KNOW. 
LEDGE 


So much is my poverty of spirit, 
So mighty, and so many, my defects, 
That I would rather hide me from my greatness,— 
Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, — 

Greatness knows itself — 


Richard III. 
Henry lY.Pt.i. 


III. 


7 
3 


SLANDER 


hard condition ! twin-born with greatness, 

Subject to the breath of every fool, 

Whose sense no more can feel but his own wringing ! 


Henry V. 


>> 


i 


n 


Be it known, that we, the greatest, are mis- 
thought 
For things that others do ; and, when we fall, 
We answer others' merits in our name, 
Are therefore to be pitied. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


V. 


2 


n 


O place and greatness, millions of false eyes 
Are stuck upon thee ! volumes of report 
Run with these false and most contrarious quests 
Upon thy doings ! thousand scapes of wit 
Make thee the father of their idle dream, 
And rack thee in their fancies ! — 


Measure for 
Measure. 


IV. 


I 


,, 


A pain that only seems to seek out danger 

I' the name of fame and honour, which dies i' the search, 

And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph, 

As record of fair act; nay, many times, 

Doth ill deserve by doing well ; what's worse, 

Must court' sey at the censure. 


Cymbeline. 


III. 


3 


SOILED 

THOUGHT- 
ACTION 


" The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire, 
And unperceived fly with the filth away ; 

But if the like the snow-white swan desire, 
The stain upon his silver down will stay. 

Be great in act, as you have been in thought ; 


Tarquin. 
King John. 


V. 


i 


TRUE 


I held it ever, 
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend ; 
But immortality attends the former, 
Making a man a god. 


Pericles. 


III. 


2 


)> 


Rightly to be great, 
Is, not to stir without great argument, 
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, 
When honour's at the stake. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


4 


UNCERTAINTY ... 


They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them ; 
And if they fall they dash themselves to pieces. 


Richard 111. 


1. 


3 


>> 


This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, 
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; 
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; 
And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely 
His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, 
And then he falls, as I do. 


Henry VIII. 


III. 


2 


)> 


As hard to leave as keep : whose top to climb 
Is certain falling, or so slippery, that 
The fear's as bad as falling; 


Cymbeline. 


>> 


3 









72 



CLASSIFICATION. 



GREED. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





GREED. 








FOLLY— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF... 


This ambitious foul infirmity, 
In having - much, torments us with defect 
Of that we have : so then we do neglect 
The thing we have ; and, all for want of wit, 
Make something nothing, by augmenting it. 


Tarquin. 






>> >> 


" The aged man that coffers up his gold, 

Is plagued with cramps, and gouts, and painful fits ; 

And scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold, 
But like still-pining Tantalus he sits, 
And useless barns the harvest of his wits ; 

Having no other pleasure of his gain, 

But torment that it cannot cure his pain. 


H 






tf » 


Those that much covet, are with gain so fond, 

That what they have not, that which they possess, 

They scatter and unloose it from their bond, 
And so, by hoping more, they have but less ; 
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess 

Is but to surfeit, and such grief sustain, 

That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain. 


)J 






tt a 


The aim of all is but to nurse the life 

With honour, wealth, and ease, in waning age ; 
And in this aim, there is such thwarting strife, 

That one for all, or all for one we gage ; 

As life for honour, in fell battles' rage ; 
Honour for wealth ; and oft that wealth doth cost 
The death of all, and all together lost. 


JJ 






INFLUENCE 


Despair to gain, doth traffic oft for gaining ; 
And when great treasure is the meed proposed, 
Though death be adjunct, there's no death supposed. 


)J 








GRIEF. 




AFFECTED 

ALONE— SUFFER- 
ING 


Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon. 
Who alone suffers, suffers most i' the mind ; 


ALUs Well That 
Ends Well. 

King Lear. 


v. 
in. 


3 
6 


ANTICIPATION ... 


My grief lies onward, and my joy behind. 


Sonnet 50. 






APPEARANCE ... 


Hath sorrow struck 
So many blows upon this face of mine, 
And made no deeper wounds ? 


Richard IT. 


IV. 


[ 


BEAUTY 


Grief, that's beauty's canker 


Tempest. 


1. 


2 


CHECKED 


Deep woes roll forward like a gentle flood, 

Who being stopp'd, the bounding banks o'erflows : 


Tarquin. 






CONSOLATION ... 


This grief is crowned with consolation ; your old smock 
brings forth a new petticoat : — and, indeed, the tears live 
in an onion, that should water this sorrow. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


>» 


>> 


CONTROL 

COURAGE— PRIDE 


Every one can master a grief, but he that has it. 

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud ; 

For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 

King John. 


in. 
tf 


1 


DEATH— RESULT 


Pure grief 
Shore his old thread in twain : 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 
—GREAT 


There cannot be a pinch in death 
More sharp than this is. 


Cymbeline. 


I. 


jj 



73 



CLASSIFICATION. 



GRIEF— (Continued) . 



PLAY OE POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
GREAT 



DURATION 

„ —WORTH 

EXPRESSING 



EXTREME... 

EVERYWHERE 
FELLOWSHIP 



FOLLY— IMMO- 
DERATE 

74 



My griefs cry louder than advertisement. 

Grief boundeth where it falls, 
Not with the empty hollowness, but weight : 

Sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done. 

Your cause of sorrow 
Must not be measured by his worth, for then 
It hath no end. 

I, an old turtle, 
Will wing me to some wither' d bough ; and there 
My mate, that's never to be found again, 
Lament, till I am lost. 

I have tremor cordis on me : — my heart dances ; 
But not for joy, — not joy. — 

O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow, 
Teach thou this sorrow, how to make me die ; 
And let belief and life encounter so, 
As doth the fury of two desperate men, 
Which, in the very meeting, fall and die. — 

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, 
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; 
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, 
Remembers me of all his gracious parts, 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; 
Then have I reason to be fond of grief. 

How stiff is my vile sense, 
That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling 
Of my huge sorrows ! Better I were distract : 
So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs, 
And woes, by wrong imaginations, lose 
The knowledge of themselves. 

O, insupportable ! O heavy hour ! 

Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse 

Of sun and moon; and that the affrighted globe 

Should yawn at alteration. 

The violence of either grief or joy 
Their own enactures with themselves destroy : 
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament ; 
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. 

Let him not come there, 
To seek out sorrow, that dwells everywhere : 

Fellowship in wo doth wo assuage, 
As palmers' chat makes short their pilgrimage. 

It easeth some, though none it ever cured, 
To think their dolour others have endured. 

The mind much sufferance doth o'erskip, 
When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship. 

'Tis good for men to love their present pains, 
Upon example ; so the spirit is eased. 

B} r relating tales of others' griefs, 
'Twill teach us to forget our own. 

Sour wo delights in fellowship, 

Some grief shews much of love ! 
But much of grief shews still some want of wit. 



Much Ado 
about Nothing. 

Richard II. 



v. 



55 55 



Macleth. 



Winter's Tale. 



King John. 



>> >> 



King Lea?-. 



Othello. 



Hamlet. 



King Lear 



Henry V. 

Pericles. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



i. 



in. 



IV. 



in. 



Richard II. i 



Tarquin. 



in. 



IV, 



in. 






CLASSIFICATION. 



GRIE F— CContinuedJ . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



FOLLY— IMMO- * 
DERATE 


Let us not burden our remembrances 
With a heaviness that's gone. 


! 
Tempest. 


v. 


I 


,, 


'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, 
As 'tis to laugh at them. — 


Coriolanus. 


IV. 


55 


,, 


What's gone, and what's past help 
Should be past grief : 


Winter's Tale. 


ni. 


2 


,, 


He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. 


Othello. 


1. 


3 


>> 


When remedies are past, the griefs are ended, 

By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. 


)> 


55 


55 


,, ... 


To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, 
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 


>t 


55 


55 


if ... 


None can cure their harms by wailing them. — 


Richard III. 


11. 


2 


,, 


It were lost sorrow, to wail one that's lost. 


55 55 


55 


55 


,, 


Things, past redress, are now with me past care. 


Richard II. 


55 


3 


FOREBODING ... 


Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb, is coming 
towards me ; 


55 55 


55 


2 


GOOD— EFFECT... 


Some griefs are med'cinable : 


Cymbeline. 


III. 


55 


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This sorrow's heavenly ; 
It strikes where it doth love. — 


Othello. 


V. 


55 


GREAT 


My particular grief 
Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature, 
That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, 
And it is still itself. 


55 


I. 


3 


„ —CURE ... 


One desperate grief cures with another's languish : 


Romeo and 
J-uliet. 


55 


2 


„ —LESS ... 


Great griefs, I see, medicine the less : 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


i> 


HIDDEN 


Sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladness, 
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


I. 


1 


ILL-EFFECT 


Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers : 


Henry FI.Pt.2. 


II. 


55 


55 55 


Grief softens the mind, 
And makes it fearful and degenerate ; 


55 55 


IV. 


4 


55 55 


My heart is turned to stone ; I strike it, and it hurts my 
hand. 


Othello. 


55 


1 


55 55 


Sorrow and grief of heart 
Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man : 


Richard II. 


III. 


3 


IMAGINATION ... 


Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, 
Which shew like grief itself, but is not so : 


55 55 


11. 


2 


j, ... 


In wooing sorrow let's be brief, 
Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief. 


55 55 


V. 


r 


j, 


'Tis with false sorrow's eye, 
Which,; for things true, weeps things imaginary, 

ilL 


55 55 


II. 


2 




Sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, 
Divines one thing entire to many objects ; 
Like perspectives, which, rightly gazed upon, 
Show nothing but confusion ; eyed awry 
Distinguish form : 


55 55 


55 


55 


IMPATIENT 


Impatience waiteth on true sorrow : 


Henry VI.Pt.3. 


III. 


3 


,, 


Grief dallied with nor law nor limit knows. 


Tarquin. 






INDIFFERENCE ... 


Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite 
The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. 


Richard II. 


I. 


55 



IS 



CLASSIFICATION. 


GRIEF — (Continued). 




PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


INSANITY 


'Tis one of those odd tricks, which sorrow shoots 
Out of the mind. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


IV. 


2 


JOY— MIXED 


One auspicious, and one dropping eye ; 


Hamlet. 


1. 


>> 


MANIFOLD 


When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 
But in battalions ! 


a 


IV. 


5 


!) 


One woe doth tread upon another's heel, 
So fast they follow : — 


a 


>> 


7 


,, 


One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, 
That may succeed as his inheritor ; 


Pericles. 


1. 


4 


MODERATE- 
EXCESSIVE 


Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive 
grief the enemy to the living. 


AIVs Well That 

Ends Well. 


>> 


1 


MOCK 


'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, 
Nor customary suits of solemn black, 
Nor windy suspirations of forced breath, 
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, 
Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, 
Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief, 
That can denote me truly : These indeed, seem, 
Foi they are actions that a man might play : 


Hamlet. 


>> 


2 


n 


Like the painting of a sorrow, 
A face without a heart ? 


>y 


IV. 


7 


,, 


To show an unfelt sorrow, is an office 
Which the false man does easy : 


Macbeth. 


II. 


3 


j, 


See now belief may suffer by foul show ? 
This borrow'd passion stands for true old wo; 


Pericles. 


IV. 


4 


OLD— NEW 


True grief is fond and testy as a child, 
Who wayward once, his mood with naught agrees. 

Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild : 
Continuance tames the one; the other wild, 


Tarquin. 






PASSIVE 


Being that I flow in grief, 
The smallest twine may lead me. 


Much Ado 

About Nothing. 


IV. 


1 


PROLONGED- 
FAULT 


To persevere 
In obstinate condolement, is a course 
Of impious stubbornness ; 'tis unmanly grief: 
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven ; 
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient ; 
An understanding simple and unschool'd : 


Hamlet. 


I. 


2 


)> }> 


'Tis a fault to heaven, 
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, 
To reason most absurd; whose common theme 
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, 
From the first corse, till he that died to-day, 
This must be so. 


>> 


>> 


>> 


REAL 


How hard true sorrow hits ; 


Sonnet 120. 






REASON 


Though fond nature bids us all lament, 
Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


IV. 


5 


RELATING 


A heavier task could not have been imposed, 
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable: 




Comedy of 
Errors. 


I. 


1 


SILENT 


A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue : 


Love's Labour's 






SLEEP 


Though wo be heavy, yet it seldom sleeps ; 

And they that watch, see time how slow it creeps. 


Lost. 
Tarquin. 


V. 


2 


SYMPATHY 


Mirth doth search the bottom of annoy: 
Sad souls are slain in merry company ; 
Gnef best is pleased with grief's society : 











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CLASSIFICATION. 


GRIEF — (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


SYMPATHY 


True sorrow then is feelingly sufficed, 
When with like semblance it is sympathized. 


Tarquin. 






„ —MOCKED 


To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal, 
But sorrow flouted at is double death. 


Titus 

Andronicus. 


in. 


I 


TEARS— COM- 
FORT 


To weep, is to make less the depth of grief : 


Henry FI.Pt.3. 


n. 


tt 


TIME 


Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. 


Tarquin. 






>t 


Grief makes one hour ten. 


Richard II. 


i. 


3 


„ 


Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, 
Makes the night morning, and the noontide night. 


Richard III. 


tt 


4 


,, 


All these woes shall serve 
For sweet discourses in our time to come. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


in. 


5 


UNKNOWN 


What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand, 
That I yet know not ? 


tt tt 


tt 


3 


UNSPOKEN 


Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not speak, 
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


tt 


>} 


An oven that is stopp'd, or river stay'd, 

Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage : 

So of concealed sorrow may be said ; 

Free vent of words love's fire doth assuage ; 

But when the heart's attorney once is mute, 

The client breaks, as desperate in his suit. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






,, 


Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, 
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. 


Titus 

Andronicus. 


II. 


5 


it 


My grief lies all within ; 
And these external manners of lament 
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, 
That swells with silence in the tortured soul ; 


Richard II. 


IV. 


i 


tt 


That deep torture may be called a hell, 
When more is felt than one hath power to tell. 


Tarquin. 






UNREASONABLE 


Great grief grieves most at that would do it good : 


tt 






WISDOM 


Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.] 


Henry FLPt.$. 


V. 


4 


,, 


Wise men ne'er wail their present woes, 
But presently prevent the ways to wail. 


Richard II. 


III. 


2 


WORDS 


Notes of sorrow, out of tune, are worse 
Than priests and fanes that lie. 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


tt 


t> 


Why should calamity be full of words ? 


Richard III. 


tt 


4 


J, 


Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief ; 


Love's Labour's 






tt • • • 


Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, 

Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes ; 


Lost. 
Tarquin. 


V. 


2 


}> 


Sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words. 


>5 






„ —WOMEN 


Grief hath two tongues, and never woman yet 
Could rule them both without ten women's wit. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 








GUESTS. 








HOST 


A fashionable host, 
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand; 
And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, 
Grasps in the comer: 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


3 



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CLASSIFICATION. 


GUESTS — (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


UNBIDDEN 


Unbidden guests 
Are often welcomest when they are gone. 


Henry Vl.Pt.i. 


ir. 


2 


WEDDING- 
FATHER 


Methinks, a father 
Is, at the nuptials of his son, a guest 
That best becomes the table. 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


WELCOME v. 
FAREWELL 


Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


in. 


>> 




GUILT. 








CONSCIENCE 


They whose guilt within their bosoms lie, 
Imagine every eye beholds their blame ; 


Tarquin. 






—FEAR 


Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 


Henry VI.Pt.$. 


V. 


6 


>> >> 


To the sick soul, as sin's true nature is, 
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss ; 
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


5 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


I would not have such a heart in my bosom, for the 
dignity of the whole body. 


Macbeth. 


V. 


i 


FEAR 


The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed : 


Tarquin. 






SELF-BETRAYING 


Guiltiness will speak, 
Though tongues were out of use. 


Othello. 


n 


>> 


• 


HABIT (see also custom). 








BAD v. GOOD ... 


That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, 
Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this ; 
That to the use of actions fair and good 
He likewise gives a frock, or livery, 
That aptly is put on : 


Hamlet. 


in. 


4 


BREAKING 


Refrain to-night : 
And that shall lend a kind of easiness 
To the next abstinence : the next more easy ! 
For use almost can change the stamp of nature, 


" 


>> 


» 


„ —DIFFICULT 


'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb 
In the dead carrion. 


Henry IV.Pt.l. 


IV. 


4 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. 


Hamlet. 


V. 


i 


POWER— GOOD ... 


How use doth breed a habit in a man ! 

Use almost can change the stamp of nature, 
And either curb the devil, or throw him out 
With wondrous potency. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Hamlet. 


III. 


4 




HAIR. 








BROWN— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


"His browny locks did hang in crooked curls, 
And every light occasion of the wind 

Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls 
What's sweet to do, to do will aptly find : 
Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind ; 

For on his visage was in little drawn, 

What largeness thinks in paradise was sawn. 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 







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CLASSIFICATION. 


HAIR — CContinued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


CARELESSLY- 
DRESSED 


Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat, 
Proclaim'd in her a careless hand of pride ; 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






CHESTNUT 


His hair is of a good colour. 
An excellent colour : your chestnut was ever the only colour. 


As You Like It. 


III. 


4 


FACE— MEN 


Small shew of man was yet upon his chin; 
His phoenix down began but to appear, 

Like unshorn velvet, on that termless skin, 

Whose bare out-bragg'd the web it seem'd to wear, 
Yet shew'd his visage by that cost more dear ; 

And nice affections wavering stood in doubt 

If best 'twere as it was, or best without. 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






>> >j 


He that hath a beard is more than a youth ; and he that 
hath no beard, is less than a man ; 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


II. 


i 


FALSE 


So are those crisped snaky golden locks, 

Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, 

Upon supposed fairness, often known 

To be the dowry of a second head, 

The skull that bred them, in the sepulchre. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


III. 


2 


GOLDEN— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


Her sunny locks 
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece ; 


>> >> 


I. 


T 


,, 


Her hair, like golden threads, play'd with the breath ; 


Tarquin. 






PORTRAIT- 
GOLDEN 


Here in her hairs 
The painter plays the spider ; and has woven 
A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men, 
Faster than gnats in cobwebs : 


Merchant of 
Venice. 




2 


RED— CHARAC- 
TER 


His very hair is of the dissembling colour 
Something browner than Judas's : 


As You Like It 








HANDS. 




BLOODY— MUR- 
DER 


Here's the smell of the blood still ; all the perfumes of 
Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. 


Macbeth. 


V. 


I 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
BEAUTIFUL ... 


Without the bed her other fair hand was, 

On the green coverlet : whose perfect white 
Shew'd like an April daisy on the grass, 


Tarquin. 






» >j 


Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under, 
Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss ; 


>? 






>y >> 


A hand that Kings 
Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


5 


>> »> 


The touches of those flower-soft hands, 


)> >> 


>J 


2 


„ —COARSE 


I verily did think 
That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands, 
She has a housewife's hand ; 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


3 


„ —HEALTHY 


Give me your hand : This hand is moist, my lady, 
It yet has felt no age, nor known no sorrow. 


Othello. 


III. 


3 


—WHITE 

IDLE— INTELLI- 
GENCE 


The white wonder of dear Juliet's hand, 

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Hamht. 


V. 


[ 


INNOCENT 


This hand of mine 
Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand, 
Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


LABOUR— BRAVE- 
MIND 


There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard 
hand. 


Henry FI.Pt.2. 


»> 


>> 



79 



CLASSIFICATION. 



HANDS— (Continued). 



PLAT OK POEM. ACT. SC. 



WEAPONS- 
QUARRELS 

YOUTH— HEALTH 



COMPETENCY v. 
SUPERFLUITY... 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 

HEAVEN v. EARTH 

OTHERS 

SILENT 

TRANSIENT 



/ 



VIRTUE— PHILO- 
SOPHY ... 



BUSINESS 

CAUTION— SLOW- 
NESS 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 

INCITING— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 

LOOKS 

NEGLIGENT (THE) 
VIOLENT— FOLLY 

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Men do their broken weapons rather use, 
Than their bare hands. 

His sweating palm, 
The precedent of pith and livelihood. 



HAPPINESS. 

It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the 
mean ; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but com- 
petency lives longer. 

A pack of blesssings light upon thy back ; 
Happiness court^ thee in her best array ; 

Comfort's in heaven ; and we are on the earth, 
Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and grief. 

O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness 
through another man's eyes I 

I were but little happy, if I could say how much. — 

O, you gods; 
Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, 
And snatch them straight away ? 

Sometimes, hath the brightest day a cloud ; 
And, after summer evermore succeeds 
Barren Winter, with his wrathful nipping cold : 
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.] 

Brief as the lightning in the colly' d night, 
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, 
And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold 1 
The jaws of darkness do devour it up. 
So quick bright things come to confusion. 

Pain pays the income of each precious thing ; 

For the time I study, 
Virtue, and that part of philosophy 
Will I apply, that treats of happiness 
By virtues specially to be achieved. 



HASTE. 

The affair cries — haste, 
And speed must answer it : 

Wisely, and slow ; They stumble, that run fast. 

With wings as swift 
As meditation, or the thoughts of love, 

Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels ; 

And fly, like thought, from them to me again. 

What haste looks through his eyes ! So should he look, 
That seems to speak things strange. 

Celerity is never more admired, 
Than by the negligent. 

With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder : 

He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes ; 



Othello. 

Venus and 
Adoiiis. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Richard II. 



111. 



n. 



As You Like It. v. 

Much Ado 

About Nothing. 11. 



Pericles. 



in. 



Henry VI.Pt.2. 11 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Tarquin. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Othello. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Hamlet. 

King Johii. 

Macbeth. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Richard II. 



11. 



IV. 



in. 
11. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



HASTE— ( Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



VIOLENT— FOLLY 



FEAR 

KILLING ... 
WORDS— SPORT, 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



ABSENT— MIRTH 

KEEPING— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF . 



„ — INEXPE. 
RIENCED 



MEALS 



ADVERSITY 
ASSERTING 



We may outrun, 
By violent swiftness, that which we run at, 
And lose by over-running. 

More than haste is mated with delays, 
Like the proceedings of a drunken brain ; 
Full of respect, yet nought at all respecting : 
In hand with all things, nought at all affecting. 

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 



HATE. 

In time we hate that which we often fear. 

Hates any man the thing he would not kill ? 

I hate she alter'd with an end, 

That follow'd it as gentle day 
Doth follow night, who, like a fiend, 

From heaven to hell is flown away ; 
I hate from hate away she threw, 

And saved my life, saying — not you. 



HERESY (Heretic), 



The heresies, that men do leave, 
Are hated most of those they did deceive : 

It is an heretic that makes the fire, 
Not she which burns in it. 



HOME. 

Men are merriest when they are from home. 

We, poor unfledged, 
Have never wing'd from view o' the nest ; nor know not 
What air's from home. Haply, this life is best, 
If quiet life be best ; 



Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits : 

To seek their fortunes farther than at home, 
Where small experience grows. 

To feed were best at home ; 
From thence, the sauce to meat is ceremony ; 



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HONESTY. 

There is no time so miserable, but a man may be true. 

In your affairs, 
If ever I were wilful-negligent, 
It was my folly ; if industriously 



Henry Fill. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



Sonnet 145. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 

H / inter''s Tale. 



Henry V. 



Cymbeline. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Taming of the 
Shrew. 

Macbeth. 



Timon of 
Athens. 



IV. 



11. 



in. 



1. 



in. 



IV. 



CLASSIFICATION. 


HONESTY — (Continued . play or poem. , 


iCT. 


sc. 


ASSERTING 


I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, 
Not weighing well the end ; if ever fearful 
To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, 
Whereof the execution did cry out 
Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear 
Which oft affects the wisest : these, 
Are such allow'd infirmities, that honesty 
Is never free of. 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


2 


BEAUTY 


The power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from 
what it is to a bawd, than the force of honesty can trans- 
form beauty into his likeness ; 


Hamlet. 


III. 


I 


COURAGE 


There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; 
For I am armed so strong in honesty, 
That they pass by me as the idle wind, 
Which I respect not. 


Julius Caesar. 


IV. 


3 


,, 


What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? 


Henry VI.Pt.2. 


III. 


2 


,, 


Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt ; it 
will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a 
big heart. — 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


I. 


3 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
MEN 


An honest man he is, and hates the slime 
That sticks on filthy deeds. 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


T> >> 


I know thou art full of love and honesty, 
And weighest thy words before thou gi vest them breath, — 


>> 


III. 


3 


>> >> 


Such things, in a false disloyal knave, 
Are tricks of custom ; but, in a man that's just, 
They are close denotements working from the heart, 
That passion cannot rule. 


j> 


>> 


»> 


>> " 


This fellow's of exceeding honesty, 

And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, 

Of human dealings : 


>> 


>> 


>> 


—PRAISE 


No legacy is so rich as honesty. 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


III. 


5 


DISHONESTY 


Corruption wins not more than honesty. 


Henry VIII. 


>» 


2 


,, 


There are no tricks in plain and simple faith : 
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, 
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle ; 
But, when they should endure the bloody spur, 
They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades, 
Sink in the trial. 


Julius Ccesar. 


IV. 


>> 


,, . . . 


Thou art not honest : or, 
If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward ; 
Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining 
From course required : 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


>> 


FORTUNE- 
WOMEN 


Those that she makes fair, she scarce makes honest ; 
and those that she makes honest, she makes very ill- 
favor' dry. 


As You Like It. 


>> 


2 


POVERTY 


Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house ; 
as your pearl in your foul oyster. 


v » 


V. 


4 


FOLLY 


What a fool Honesty is ! and Trust, his sworn brother, a 
very simple gentleman ! 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


-,, 


O wretched fool, 
That livest to make thine honesty a vice!^ 


Othello. 


III. 


if 


,, 


O monstrous world ! Take note, take note, O world, 
To be direct and honest is not safe. — 


>> 


>> 


>> 



82 



CLASSIFICATION. 


HONESTY— (Continued). 


PLAY OK POEM. 


ACT. 


SC. 


FOLLY 


I should be wise ; for honesty's a fool, 
And loses that it works for. 


Othello. 


in. 


3 


RARE 


We need no grave to bury honesty ; 
There's not a grain of it, the face to sweeten 
Of the whole dungy earth. 


Winter's Tale. 


ii. 


2 


,, 


To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man 
picked out of ten thousand. 


Hamlet. 


7) 


i» 




HONOUR (s). 








ASSERTING 


Nought I did in hate ! but all in honour. 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


,, 


Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate : 


Troilus and 






,, ... ... 


'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour ; 
Mine honour, it. 


Cressida. 
Antony and 


» 


3 


BESTOWAL- 
REASON 


Though we lay these honours on this man, 
To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, 
He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, 
To groan and sweat under the business, 


Cleopatra. 
Julius Caisar. 


II. 

IV. 


7 

i 


BRIBERY 


What, shall one of us, 
That struck the foremost man of all this world, 
But for supporting robbers ; shall we now 
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? 
And sell the mighty space of our large honours, 
For so much trash, as may be grasped thus ? — 


>> >> 


>> 


3 


BURDEN 


Too much honour: 
O, 'tis a burden, Cromwell, 'tis a burden, 
Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven. 


Henry Fill. 


III. 


2 


DANGER 


'Tis the more honour, because more dangerous. 


Henry Fl.Pt.$. 


IV. 


3 


DEATH 


What is it that you would impart to me ? 
If it be aught toward the general good, 
Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, 
And I will look on both indifferently : 
For, let the gods so speed me, as I love 
The name of honour more than I fear death. 


Julius Caesar. 


I. 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Not a man, for being simply man, 

Hath any honour ; but honour for those honours 

That are without him, as place, riches, favour, 

Prizes of accident as oft as merit. 

Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, 
The love that lean'd on them as slippery too, 
Do one pluck down another, and together 
Die in the fall. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


3 


>> m 


Honour is an essence that's not seen ; 
They have it very oft, that have it not : 


Othello. 


IV. 


i 


" n 


Honour's train 
Is longer than his foreskirt. 


Henry Fill. 


II. 


3 


DESIRE 


By Jove, I am not covetous for gold ; 

Nor care I, who doth feed upon my cost ; 

It yearns me not, if men my garments wear ; 

Such outward things dwell not in my desires : 

But, if it be a sin to covet honour, 

I am the most offending soul alive. 


Henry V. 


IV. 


>7 


EMULATION 


If you give way, 
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, 









83 



CLASSIFICATION. 



HONOUR— fContinuedJ. 



PLAT OB POEM. ACT. SC. 



EMULATION 



FALSE 



LIFE 



LOSS 

MISPLACED 
TITLE v. TRUE 

TRUE 

„ v. FALSE 



„ —DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 



DECEPTIVE 



Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, 
And leave you hindmost ; — 
Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, 
Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, 
O'errun and trampled on : 

Honour travels in a strait so narrow, 

"Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; 

For emulation hath a thousand sons, 

That one by one pursue : 

That is honour's scorn, 
Which challenges itself as honour's born, 
And is not like the sire : 

Where great additions swell, and virtue none, 
It is a dropsied honour : 

My life thou shalt command, but not my shame : 
The one my duty owes ; but my fair name, 
(Despite of death, that lives upon my grave,) 
To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have. 

Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ; 
Take honour from me, and my life is done : 

Life every man holds dear ; but the brave man 
Holds honour far more precious-dear than life. — 

If I lose mine honour, 
I lose myself : 

Gilded honour shamefully misplaced, 

The property by what it is should go, 
Not by the title. 

From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, 
The place is dignified by the doer's deed: 

The mere word's a slave, 
Debauch'd on every tomb ; on every grave, 
A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb, 
W r here dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the tomb 
Of honour'd bones indeed. 

Honours best thrive, 
When rather from our acts we them derive 
Than our fore- goers ; 

From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, 

The place is dignified by the doer's deed : 

W T here great additions swell, and virtue none, 

It is a dropsied honour : good alone 

Is good, without a name ; vileness is so ; 

The property by what it is should go, 

Not by the title. 



HOPE. 

The ample proposition, that hope makes 
In all designs begun on earth below, 
Fails in the promised largeness : 

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there 
W T here most it promises ; and oft it hits, 
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits. 

I will despair, and be at enmity 
With cozening hope ; he is a flatterer, 



Troilus and 

C'ressida. m. 3 



>> » 



Richard II. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Sojuiel 66. 

All's Well That 
Ends Well. 



it >> 



>> >> 



>> 5> 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



AlPs Well That 
Ends Well. 11. 



in. 



11. 



AW s Well That 

Ends Well. 11. I „ 



84 



CLASSIFICATION. 



HOPE— CContinued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DECEPTIVE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF- 
POWER ... 

FUTURE ... 



FALSE 



HIGH— LOW 



LOVERS 

MISERABLE (THE) 

PLEASURE- 
IMAGINATION 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



-RIDER 



YOUNG— BUR- 
THEN'D... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF- 
HARE ... 



A parasite, a keeper back of death, 

Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, 

Which false hope lingers in extremity. 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings, 
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

Even through the hollow eyes of death, 
I spy life peering ; 

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear 
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace, and fear : 
And you all know, security 
Is mortals' chiefest enemy. 

He lined himself with hope, 
Eating the air on promise of supply, 
Flattering himself in project of a power 
Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts ; 
And so, with great imagination, 
Proper to madmen, led his powers to death, 
And, winking, leap'd into destruction. 

To be worst, 
The lowest, and most dejected thing of fortune, 
Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear ; 
The lamentable change is from the best ; 
The worst returns to laughter. 

Hope is a lover's staff 

The miserable have no other medicine, 
But only hope : 

And hope to joy, is little less in joy, 
Than hope enjoy'd : 



HORSES. 

High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, 
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : 

Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, 
Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, 

It is a beast for Perseus : he is pure air and fire ; and 
the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, 
but only in patient stillness, while his rider mounts him : 
he is, indeed, a horse ; and all other jades you may call — 
beasts. 

That horse his mettle from his rider takes ! 
Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, 

Vaulted with such ease into his seat, 

As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, 

To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, 

And witch the world with noble horsemanship. 

The colt that's back'd and burthen'd being young 
Loseth his pride, and never waxeth strong. 



HUNTING. 

If thou needs wilt hunt, be ruled by me : 
Uncouple at the timorous flying hare, 

Or at the fox, which lives by subtilty, 
Or at the roe, which no encounter dare 



Richard II. 
Richard III. 
Richard II. 

Madeth. 



Henry IV.Pt.2. i. 



in. 



King Lear. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Measure for 
Measure. 

Richard II. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



IV. 



in. 



ii. 



Henry V. 

Lover's Com- 
plaint. 



Henry IV.Pl.i 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



in. 



IV. 



85 



CLASSIFICATION. 


HUNTING— (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 


Pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs, 


Venus and 






HARE 


And on thy well-breath'd horse keep with thy hounds. 


Adonis. 




v 


11 11 


And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare, 
Mark the poor wretch to overshoot his troubles, 

How he outruns the wind, and with what care 
He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles : 










The many musits through the which he goes, 
Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes. 


11 11 






11 11 


For there his smell with others being mingled, 

The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt ; 

Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled 
With much ado the cold fault cleanly out ; 

Then do they spend their mouths : Echo replies, 

As if another chase were in the skies. 


11 ii 






" 11 


By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, 

Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear, 

To hearken if his foes pursue him still ; 
Anon their loud alarums he doth hear; 

And now his grief may be compared well 

To one sore sick, that hears the passing bell. 


ii ii 








Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch 
Turn and return, indenting with the way ; 

Each envious briar his weary legs doth scratch, 
Each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay : 

For misery is trodden on by many, 

And being low, never relieved by any. 


ii ii 






?> J> 


Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep, 

To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell : 

And sometime where earth-delving conies keep, 
To stop the loud pursuers in their yell ; 

And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer : 

Danger deviseth shifts ; wit waits on fear : 


ii ii 






MUSIC 


We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top, 

And mark the musical confusion 

Of hounds and echo in conjunction. 

Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, 

The skies, the fountains, every region near 

Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard 


Midsummer 








So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. 


Night's Dream 


IV. 


I 




HUSBANDS (see also wives). 








BACHELORS 


As a wall'd town is more worthier than a village, so is 
the forehead of a married man more honourable than the 










bare brow of a bachelor : 


As You Like It. 


III. 


3 


FOOLS 


Fools are as like husbands, as pilchards are to herrings, 










the husband's the bigger; 


Twelfth Night. 


11 


i 


,, ... ... 


'Tis such fools as you, 










That make the world full of ill-favour'd children : 


As You Like It. 


11 


5 


HEAD— WIFE 


The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls, 
Are their males' subject, and at their controls : 
Men, more divine, the masters of all these, 
Lords of the wide world, and wild wat'ry seas, 









86 



CLASSIFICATION. 


HUSBANDS— (Continuexl) . 


PLAY OR, POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


HEAD— WIFE 


Indued with intellectual sense and souls, 
Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, 
Are masters to their females, and their lords : 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


ii. 


I 


n 11 


I am ashamed that women are so simple 
To offer war, where they should kneel for peace, 
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, 
Where they are bound to serve, love, and obey. 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


V. 


2 


11 ii 


Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, 
Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee 
And for thy maintenance : commits his body 
To painful labour, both by sea and land ; 
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, 
While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe ; 
And craves no other tribute at thy hands, 
But love, fair looks, and true obedience ; — 
Too little payment for so great a debt. 


ii ii 


11 


ii 


HENPECKED 


Thou art woman-tir'd, unroosted 
By thy dame Partlet here, — 


Winter's Tale. 


II. 


3 


LIBERTY 


A man is master of his liberty : 
Time is their master; 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


11 


i 


LOVERS 


Men are April when they woo, December when they 
wed; 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


;> 


NEGLECTFUL ... 


The time was once, when thou unurged woulds't vow, 
That never words were music to thine ear 
That never object pleasing in thine eye, 
That never touch well-welcome to thy hand, 
That never meat sweet-savour'd in thy taste, . 
Unless I spake, look'd, touch'd, or carved to thee. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


II. 


2 


TRUANT 


I know his eye doth homage otherwhere ; 
Or else, what lets it but he would be here ? 


ii ii 


11 


I 


—ADVICE 


'Tis double wrong to truant with your bed, 
And let her read it in thy looks at board : 


ii it 


III. 


2 


ii 


Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty ! 


ii ii 


11 


11 


ii 


Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted? 


ii ii 


11 


ii 


WIDOWERS- 
CONSOLATION 


When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man 
from him, it shews to man the tailors of the earth; com- 
forting therein, that when old robes are worn out, there 
are members to make new. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


I. 


ii 


WIVES 


Such duty as the subject owes the prince, 
Even such, a woman oweth to her husband : 
And when she's froward, peevish, sullen, sour, 
And not obedient to his honest will, 
What is she, but a foul contending rebel, 
And graceless traitor to her loving lord ? — 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


V. 


2 


ii 


Let husbands know 
Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell, 
And have their palates both for sweet and sour, 
As husbands have. 


Othello. 


IV. 


3 


ii 


I take to-day a wife, and my election 

Is led on in the conduct of my will ; 

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, 

Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores 

Of will and judgment: How may I avoid, 

Although my will distaste what it elected, 

The wife I chose? there can be no evasion - 

To blench from this, and to stand firm by honour: 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


II. 


2 



87 



CLASSIFICATION. 



HYPOCRISY. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





HYPOCRISY. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 


Hamlet. 


in. 


4 


n >> 


False face must hide what the false heart doth know. 


Macbeth. 


i. 


7 


n n 


Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger ; 


Comedy of 










Errors. 


in. 


2 


»> 11 


Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint ; 


n n 


n 


n 


11 »j 


Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted : 


n n 


11 


n 


PUNISHMENT ... 


Now step I forth to whip hypocrisv. — 


Love's Labour's 






RELIGION 


We art oft to blame in this, — 
'Tis too much proved, — that, with devotion's visage, 
And pious action, we do sugar o'er 


Lost. 


IV. 


3 




The devil himself. 


Hamlet. 


III. 


i 




HYPOCRITES. 








APPEARANCE— 


When devils will their blackest sins put on, 








DEVILS 


They do suggest at first with heavenh/ shews, 


Othello. 


II. 


3 


V 11 


The devil hath power 










To assume a pleasing shape ; 


Hamlet. 


11 


2 


DECEIVED— AP- 


I took him for the plainest harmless creature 








PEARANCE 


That breathed upon the earth a Christian; 
Made him my book, wherein my soul recorded 
The history of all her secret thoughts : 










So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue, 


Richard III. 


III. 


5 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


I can counterfeit the deep tragedian ; 
Speak, and look back, and pry on every side, 
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw. 
Intending deep suspicion : ghastly looks 
Are at my service, like enforced smiles; 
And both are ready in their offices, 










At any time, to grace my stratagems. 


ft n 


11 


>> 


11 V 


Seems he a dove ? his feathers are but borrow'd, 
For he's disposed as the hateful raven. 
Is he a lamb ? his skin is surely lent him, 










For he's inclined as are the ravenous wolves. 


Henry FI.Pt.2. 


11 


i 


>> >? 


I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall ; 

I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk ; 

I'll play the orator as well as Nestor. 

Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, 

And, like a Sinon, take another Troy;] 

I can add colours to the cameleon ; 

Change shapes, with Proteus, for advantages, 










And set the murd'rous Machiavel to school. 


Henry PI.Pt.$. 


11 


2 


5> 11 


Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile ; 
And cry, content, to that which grieves my heart ; 
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, 










And frame my face to all occasions. 


n n 


11 


»> 


>> >> 


A damned saint, an honourable villain ! — 


Romeo and 






>) J> 


To beguile the time, 
Look like the time : bear welcome in your eye, 
Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, 


Juliet. 


11 


ii 




But be the serpent under it. 


Macbeth. 


I. 


5 



88 



CLASSIFICATION. 


HYPOCRITES— (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Like a constant and confirmed devil, 
He entertain'd a shew so seeming just, 

And therein so ensconced his secret evil, 
That jealousy itself could not mistrust, 


Tar quin. 






>> » 


Thou art like the harpy, 
Which, to betray, doth wear an angel's face, 
Seize with an eagle's talons. 


Pericles. 


IV. 


4 


RELIGIOUS 


An evil soul, producing holy witness, 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; 
A goodly apple rotten at the heart : 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


»■ 


3 


,, ... 


I clothe my naked villany 
With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; 
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. 


Richard III. 


>> 


a 


TEARS 


Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, 
For villainy is not without such rheum ; 
And he, long traded in it, makes it seem 
Like rivers of remorse and innocency. 


King John 


IV. 


>> 




IDLENESS. 








ASHAMED 


• 
I am ashamed 
To look upon the holy sun, to have 
The benefit of his bless'd beams, remaining 
So long a poor unknown. 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


4 


DANGER 


Omission to do what is necessary 
Seals a commission to a blank of danger ; 
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints 
Even then when we sit idly in the sun. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


3 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


I think good thoughts while others write good words, 
And, like unletter'd clerk, still cry Amen 

To every hymn that able spirit affords, 
In polish' d form of well-refined pen. 


Sonnet 85. 






INDUSTRY 


A stirring dwarf we do allowance give 
Before a sleeping giant : — 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


II. 


>» 




IGNORANCE. 








CURSE 

t , ... 


The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, 

Ignorance is the curse of God, 
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, — 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Henry VI.Pt.2. 


II. 

IV. 


3 

7 


DARKNESS 


There is no darkness but ignorance, 


Twelfth Night. 


)) 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's 
good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, 
it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a 
little room : — 


As You Like It. 


III. 


3 


KNOWLEDGE- 
WRONGS 


There may be in the cup 
A spider steep'd, and one may drink; depart, 
And yet partake no venom ; for his knowledge 
Is not infected : but if one present 
The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known 
How he hath drank, he cracks his gorge, his sides, 
With violent hefts : — 


Pointer's Tale. 


II. 


1 



89 



CLASSIFICATION. 



IGNORANCE— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



KNOWLEDGE- 
WRONGS 



DAY-DREAMERS 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



POWER 



REALITY 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



90 



'Tis better to be much abused, 
Than but to know 't a little. 

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, 
Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. 



IMAGINATION 

(SEE ALSO THOUGHTS). 

Fools that in the imagination set 

The goodly objects which abroad they find 
Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign'd ; 
And labouring in more pleasures to bestow them, 
Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them. 

This is the very coinage of your brain : 

In my mind's eye, 

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 

Are of imagination all compact : 

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — 

That is, the madman ; the lover, all as frantic, 

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt ; 

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven 

And, as imagination bodies forth 

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 

A local habitation and a name. 

Such tricks hath strong imagination ; 
That, if it would but apprehend some joy, 
It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; 
Or, in the night, imagining some fear, 
How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! 

Suppose the singing birds, musicians ; 
The grass, whereon thou tread'st, the presence strew'd, 
The flowers, fair ladies ; and thy steps, no more 
Than a delightful measure, or a dance ; 

Who can hold a fire in his hand, 
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? 
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, 
By bare imagination of a feast ? 
Or wallow naked in December snow, 
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? 
O, no ! the apprehension of the good, 
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse ; 

Nature wants stuff 
To vie strange forms with fancy; 



Othello. 



in. 



Lover" 1 s Com- 
plaint. 

Hamlet. 



INCONSTANCY. 



False 

As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false 
As dice are to be wish'd, by one that fixes 
No bourn 'twixt his and mine ; 

I am a feather for each wind that blows : — 



Midsummer 
NighCs Dream, v. 



in. 
1. 



4 

2 



»> » 



Richard II. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Winter's Tale. 1. 



11. 3 



CLASSIFICATION. 


INCONSTANCY— (.Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


As false 
As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth, 
As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, 
Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son ; 
Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, 
As false as Cressid. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


2 


» » 


Make thy doublet of changeable taffata, for thy mind is 
a very opal! — I would have men of such constancy put to 
sea, that their business might be everything, and their 
intent everywhere ; 


Twelfth Night. 


11. 


4 


LOVERS— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


Take, oh, take those lips away, 
That so sweetly were forsworn, 

And those eyes, the break of day, 
Lights that do mislead the morn : 

But my kisses bring again, 

Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. 


Passionate Pil- 
grim. 


verse 


'9 


>> »> 


Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow, 
Which thy frozen bosom bears, 

On whose tops the pinks that grow 
Are of those that April wears : 

But first set my poor heart free, 

Bound in those icy chains by thee. 


)> M 


n 


jj 


>> >» 


Her lips to mine how often hath she join'd, 

Between each kiss her oaths of true love swearing : 

How many tales to please me hath she coin'd, 
Dreading my love, the loss thereof still fearing ; 

Yet in the midst of all her pure pretestings, 

Her faith, her oaths, her tears, and all were jestings. 


)> » 


>> 


7 


MEN 


Were man 
But constant, he were perfect : that one error 
Fills him with faults ; makes him run through all sins ; 


Tico Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


v. 


4 


WOMEN v. MEN... 


Inconstancy 
More in women than in men remain. 


Passionate Pil- 
grim. 


verse 


*5 




INDEX. 






• 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


In such indexes, although small pricks 
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen 
The baby figure of the giant mass 
Of things to come at large. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


i. 


3 




INGRATITUDE. 








AGE 


These old fellows 
Have their ingratitude in them hereditary : 
Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows ; 
'Tis lack of kindly warmth, they are not kind ; 
And nature, as it grows again toward earth, 
Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy. — 


Timon of 
Athens. 


11. 


2 


ASTONISHMENT 


I'm rapt, and cannot cover 
The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude 
With any size of words. 


If 5> 


v. 


I 


DEBT— REPAY- 
MENT 


'Tis called ungrateful, 

With dull unwillingness to repay a debt 

Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent ; 


Richard III. 


ii. 


2 



9 1 



CLASSIFICATION. 


INGRATITUDE— (Contin ued). 


PLAT OK. POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 

As man's ingratitude; 
Thy tooth is not so keen, 
Because thou art not seen, 

Although thy breath be rude. 


As You Like It. 


ii. 


7 


>> »> 


You used us 
As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, 
Useth the sparrow : did oppress our nest ; 
Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk, 
That even our love durst not come near your sight, 
For fear of swallowing ; 


Henry IV. Pt. I 


v. 


i 


EFFECT 


Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms, 
Quite vanquish' d him : 


Julius Ccesar. 


in. 


2 


FILIAL 


Filial ingratitude ! 
Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand, 
For lifting food to't ? 


King Lear. 


>> 


4 


,, 


How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child ! — 


>j >> 


i. 


>> 


»> ••• ••• 


Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, 

More hideous, when thou shew'st thee in a child, 

Than the sea-monster 1 


>> >» 


» 


>> 


GOD 


God is much displeased, 
That you take with unthankfulness his doing ; 
In common worldly things, 'tis called ungrateful, 
With dull unwillingness to repay a debt, 
Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent ; 
Much more to be thus opposite with Heaven, 
For it requires the royal debt it lent you. 


Richard III. 


11. 


2 


VICE— WORST ... 


I hate ingratitude more in a man, 
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, 
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption 
Inhabits our frail blood. 


Twelfth Night. 


in. 


4 




INNOCENCE. 




DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
CHILDHOOD ... 


We were as twinn'd lambs, that did frisk i' the sun, 

And bleat the one at the other : What we changed, 

Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not 

The doctrine of ill-doing, no, nor dream'd 

That any did : Had we pursued that life, 

And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd 

With stronger blood, we should have answer'd Heaven 

Boldly, Not guilty ; 


Winter 's Tale. 


i. 


2 


GUILT— WORLD... 


I have done no harm. But I remember now 
I am in this earthly world ; where, to do harm, 
Is often laudable ; to do good, sometime, 
Accounted dangerous folly : 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


» 


POWER 


The silence often of pure innocence, 
Persuades, when speaking fails. 


Winter'' s Tale. 


n. 


2 


SUSPICION 


Unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on evil ; 
Birds never limed no secret bushes fear : 


Tarquin. 






TRIUMPH 


If powers divine 
Behold our human actions, (as they do,) 
I doubt not then, but innocence shall make 
False accusation blush, and tyranny 
Tremble at patience. — 


Winter's Tale. 


in. 


>> 






92 



CLASSIFICATION. 



INVENTION. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 

FEAR— NECESSITY 
NEW— OLD 



ACCOMPLISH. 
MENTS— WIFE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DISCLAIMING 



FOOLS 
LOVE— AGONY 



93 



INVENTION. 

My invention 
Comes from my pate, as birdlime does from frize, 
It plucks out brains and all : 

Danger deviseth shifts ; wit waits on fear : 

If there be nothing new, but that, which is, 

Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled, 

Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss 
The second burden of a former child ? 

Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire 
What thou dost foist upon us that is old ; 

And rather make them born to our desire, 

Than think that we before have heard them told. 

Thy pyramids, built up with newer might, 
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange ; 
They are but dressings of a former sight. 



JEALOUSY. 



'Tis not to make me jealous, 
To say — my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, 
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well ; 
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : 

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; 
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock 
The meat it feeds on : 

One, not easily jealous, but, being wrought 
Perplex'd in the extreme : 

Jealousy 
Shapes faults that are not, — 

" This sour informer, this hate-breeding spy, 
This canker that eats up love's tender spring, 

This carry-tale, dissentious jealousy, 

That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring, 

Green-eyed jealousy 1 

Self -harming jealousy ! 

These are the forgeries of jealousy : 

Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend 
From jealousy ! 

Thinkst thou, I'd make a life of jealousy, 
To follow still the changes of the moon 
With fresh suspicions ? 

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy ! 

That cuckold lives in bliss, 
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger ; 
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er, 
Who dotes, yet doubts ; suspects, yet strongly loves ! 



Othello. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



Sonnet 59. 



123. 



>> jj 



Othello. 



11. 



in. 



j> )> 



v. 



in. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 

Midsummer 
Night* 's Dream 



Othello. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 



in. 



11. 



Othello. 



in. 3 



11. 



in. 



CLASSIFICATION. 


JEALOUSY— (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


PROOF 


I'll see, before I doubt ; when I doubt, prove ; 
And, on the proof, there is no more but this, — 
Away at once with love, or jealousy. 


Othello. 


III. 


3 


TRIFLES 


Trifles, light as air, 
Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong 
As proofs of holy writ. 


>? 


!> 


jj 


UNREASONABLE 


Jealous souls will not be answered so; 
They are not ever jealous for the cause. 
But jealous, for they are jealous : 'tis a monster, 
Begot upon itself, born on itself. 


>> 


»> 


4 


>> 


A jealousy so strong, 
That judgment cannot cure. 


>> 


II. 


1 


WORKINGS— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


This entertainment 
May a free face put on ; derive a liberty 
From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, 
And well become the agent ; it may, I grant : 
But to be paddling palms, and pinching fingers, 
As now they are ; and making practised smiles, 
As in a looking-glass ; and then to sigh, as 'twere 
The mort o' the deer : O, that is entertainment 
My bosom likes not, nor my brows. — 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


2 




JESTERS. 








ART 


He must observe their mood on whom he jests, 
The quality of persons, and the time ; 
And, like the haggard, check at every feather 
That comes before his eye. 


Twelfth Night. 


III. 


I 


•» 


This is a practice, 
As full of labour as a wise's man's art : 
For folly, that he wisely shews, is fit ; 
But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit. 


>> >> 


>> 


>) 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeon's peas ; 
And utters it again, when God doth please : 
He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares 
At wakes, and wassels, meetings, markets, fairs ; 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


V. 


2 


DRY— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 


His brain, — 
Is as dry as the remainder biscuit 
After a voyage, 


As You Like It. 


II. 


7 


GOD-FEARING ... 


The man doth fear God, howsoever, it seems not in him, 
by some large jests he will make. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


>> 




GOOD 


A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : 


Hamlet. 


V. 


I 


„ —JANGLING 


Good wits will be jangling : 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


- 
II. 


)) 


MEAGRE 


Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow. 


»> >> 


>> 


5> 


,, 


A very dull fool ; only his gift is in devising impossible 
slanders : none but libertines delight in him ; and the 
commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy ; for he 
both pleaseth men and angers them, and then they laugh 
at him, and beat him. 


Much Ado 
About Nothi?ig. 


>> 


>> 


»» • • • • • • 


I shall ne'er be 'ware of mine own wit, till I break my 
shins against it. 


As You Like It. 


}} 


4 


,, 


His wit is as thick as Tewkesbury mustard ; there is no 
more conceit in him, than is in a mallet. 


Henry IY.Pt.2. 


>> 


)7 



94 






CLASSIFICATION. 



JESTERS— CContinuedJ. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



OLD 

PROPHETS 

RUDE 

SAD 

SELF-PRAISING 



EXCESS— EX- 
PRESSING 



GREAT 



HOPE 

RELIANCE- 
YOUNG . 

SILENCE . 

VIOLENT . 



How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester ! 

Jesters do oft prove prophets. 

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, 
Which gives men stomach to digest his words 
With better appetite. 

Not marked, or not laughed at, strikes him into 
melancholy ; and then there's a partridge wing saved, for 
the fool will eat no supper that night. 

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is 
in other men. 

The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not 
able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I 
invent, or is invented on me. 



Henry IV. Ft. 2. v 



King Lear. 



Julius Ccesar. 



Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



JOY (see also happiness). 

If he be sick 
With joy, he will recover without physic. 

Give me a gash, put me to present pain ; 
Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, 
O'erbear the shores of my mortality, 
And drown me with their sweetness. — 

No more, you gods ! your present kindness 
Makes my past miseries sport: 

I cannot speak enough of this content, 
It stops me here : it is too much of joy : 

If it were now to die, 
'Twas now to be most happy ; for, I fear, 
My soul hath her content so absolute, 
That not another comfort like to this 
Succeeds in unknown fate. 

O my soul's joy ! 
If after every tempest come such calms, 
May the winds blow till they have awaken' d death ! 
And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, 
Olympus-high ; and duck again as low 
As hell's from heaven 1 

Come what sorrow can, 
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, 
That one short minute gives me in her sight : 

O blessed, blessed night ! I am afeard, 
Being in night, all this is but a dream, 
Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. 

Hope to joy, is little less in joy, 
Than hope enjoy'd : 

Briefly die their joys, 
That place them on the truth of girls and boys. — 

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : 

The violence of either grief or joy 
Their own enactures with themselves destroy : 
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament ; 
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. 



Pericles. 



Othello. 



Romeo and 
jfuliet. 



Richard II. 

Cymbeline. 

Much Ado 

About Nothing. 

Hamlet. 



ii. 



HenryIV.Pt.2. I. 



Henry IV.Pt.2.' iv 



v. 



1 1. 



n. 



m. 



95 



CLASSIFICATION. 



JUDGES. 



PLAT OK POEM. ACT, 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



—QUALITIES 



-WISE 



FUNCTION 



THIEF 



CLAIMS ... 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 
—TRIALS 



HEAVEN— EARTH 



LAW— WRONGS 



JUDGES. 



The justice, 
In fair round belly, -with good capon lined, 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wise saws and modern instances. 

He, who the sword of heaven will bear, 
Should be as holy as severe ; 
Pattern in himself to know, 
Grace to stand, and virtue go ; 
More nor less to others paying, 
Than by self-offences weighing. 

O wise and upright judge ! 
How much more elder art thou than thy looks ! 

A Daniel come to judgment — yea, a Daniel ! — 

Mine were the very cipher of a function, 

To find the faults, whose fine stands in record, 

And let go by the actor. 

See how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. 
Change places ; and handy-dandy, which is the justice, 
which is the thief ? — 



As You Like It, 



JUSTICE (see also mercy). 

'Tis no sinister, nor no awkward claim, 

Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanished days, 

Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked, 

Even-handed justice 

Thieves are not judged, but they are by to hear, 
Although apparent guilt be seen in them. 

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two 
Guiltier than him they try : What's open made to justice, 
That justice seizes. 

Then is there mirth in heaven, 
When earthly things made even 
Atone together. 

In the corrupted currents of this world, 
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice ; 
And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize itself 
Buys out the law : But 'tis not so above : 
There is no shuffling, there the action lies 
In his true nature ; and we ourselves compell'd, 
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, 
To give in evidence. 

Justice is feasting while the widow weeps ; 

Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand : 

Why dost thou lash that whore ? Strip thine own back ; 

Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind, 

For which thou whipp'st her. 

Not ever 
The justice and the truth o' the question carries 
The due o' the verdict with it : 



Measure for 
Measure. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



King Lear. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



Henry V. 
Macbeth. 

Richard II. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



ii. 



IV. 



ii. 



IV. 



II. 



4 

7 



As You Like It. v 



Hamlet. 
Tarquin. 



King Lear. 



in. 



IV. 



Henry TILT. v. 



96 



CLASSIFICATION. 



JUSTICE— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



MERCY 



SELF 
SPARING ... 



RETRIBUTIVE 



„ —TRIUMPH 



CARE 



CEREMONY 



CONTENT 



Earthly power doth then shew likest God's 
When mercy seasons justice. 

In the course of justice, none of us 
Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; 
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render 
The deeds of mercy. 

To offend and judge, are distinct offices 
And of opposed natures. 

We bid this be done, 
When evil deeds have their permissive pass, 
And not the punishment. 

As fond fathers 
Having bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch, 
Only to stick it in their children's sight, 
For terror, not to use ; in time the rod 
Becomes more mock'd than fear'd : so our decrees, 
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead ; 
And liberty plucks justice by the nose ; 

Sparing justice feeds iniquity. 

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to scourge us : 

If powers divine 
Behold our human actions, (as they do,) 
I doubt not then, but innocence shall make 
False accusation blush, and tyranny 
Tremble at patience. — 



KINGS. 

Princes have but their titles for their glories, 
An outward honour for an inward toil ; 
And, for unfelt imaginations, 
They often feel a world of restless cares : 
So that, between their titles and low name, 
There's nothing differs but the outward fame. 

I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 

O majesty ! 
When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit 
Like a rich armour, worn in heat of day, 
That scalds with safety. 

O polish' d perturbation ! golden care! 

What infinite heart's ease must kings neglect, 
That private men enjoy ! 

What have kings that privates have not too, 
Save ceremony, save general ceremony ? 

My crown is in my heart, not on my head ; 
[Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, 
Nor to be seen ; my crown is call'd content ;] 
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



j} 11 



Measure for 
Measure. 



IV. 



n. 



i. 



Tarqviiiu 



King Lear. 



Winters Taie 



Richard ill. 



Henry Fill. 



Henry IF.Pt.2- 



Henry V. 



Henry Vl.Pt.%. in 



» " 



v. 



in. 



ii. 



IV. 



97 



CLASSIFICATION. 



KINGS— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DEATH 



DEPOSED 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 
DIVINE RIGHT .. 

EQUALITY 



EVIL DEEDS 



EXAMPLE ... 
FALSEHOOD 

FAVORITES 

FAVORS ... 



The cease of majesty- 
Dies not alone ; but, like a gulf, doth draw 
What's near it, with it : it is a massy wheel, 
Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, 
To whose huge spoke ten thousand lesser things 
Are mortised and adjoin'd ; which, when it falls, 
Each small annexment, petty consequence, 
Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never alone 
Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. 

The single and peculiar life is bound, 
With all the strength and armour of the mind, 
To keep itself from 'noyance ; but much more 
That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest 
The lives of many. 

Within the hollow crown 
That round the mortal temples of a king 
Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, 
Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ; 
Allowing him a breath, a little scene 
To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks ; 
Infusing him with self and vain conceit, — 
As if this flesh, which walls about our life, 
Were brass impregnable, and, humour'd thus, 
Comes at the last, and with a little pin 
Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell king ! 

But yesterday, the word of Caesar might 

Have stood against the world : now lies he there, 

And none so poor to do him reverence. 

Ay, every inch a king : 

Not all the waters in the rough rude sea 
Can wash the balm from an anointed king : 
The breath of worldy men cannot depose 
The deputy elected by the Lord. 

What earthly name to interrogatories 
Can task the free breath of a sacred king ? 

The king is but a man, as I am : the violet smells to 
him, as it doth to me : the element shews to him, as it 
doth to me ; all his senses have but human conditions : 
his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a 
man. 

The baser is he, coming from a king, 

To shame his hopes with deeds degenerate. 

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing 
That makes him honour'd, or begets him hate ; 
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 

The moon being clouded presently is miss'd, 

But little stars may hide them when they list. 

Princes are the glass, the school, the book, 
Where subjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look. 

To lapse in fulness 
Is sorer than to lie for need ; and falsehood 
Is worse in kings than beggars. — 

Favourites, 
Made proud by princes, advance their pride 
Against the power that bred it. 

Monarch's hands, that let no bounty fall 

Where want cries some, but where excess begs all. 



Hamlet. 



in. 



Richard II. 

Julius C&sar. 
King Lear. 

Richard II. 
King John. 



Henry V. 



Tarquin. 



IV. 



in. 






IV. 



Cymleline. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 

Lover's Com- 
plaint. 



in. 



9 8 



CLASSIFICATION. 


KIN GS— ( Continued) . 


PLAT OB POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


FAVORS 


O, how wretched 
Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favours ! 
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, 
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, 
More pangs and fears than wars or women have; 
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, 
Never to hope again. 


Henry Fill. 


in. 


2 


FREEDOM 


To be a queen in bondage is more vile, 
Than is a slave in base servility ; 
For princes should be free. 


Henry VI.Pt.\. 


v. 


3 


GOVERNMENT ... 


Kings, like gods, should govern every thing. 


Tarquin. 






HOPE 


Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 


Richard III. 


j> 


2 


INTEMPERANCE 


Boundless intemperance 
In nature is a tyranny ; it hath been 
The untimely emptying of the happy throne, 
And fall of many kings. 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


3 


IRRESPONSIBILITY 


Kings are earth's gods : in vice their law's their will ; 
And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill ? 


Pericles. 


i. 


i 


LOVE— FEAR 


Happy monarchs still are fear'd for love. 


Tarquin. 






MANNERS 


We are the makers of manners : and the liberty that 
follows our places, stops the mouths of all find-faults. 


Henry V. 


V. 


2 


,, 


Nice customs court'sy to great kings. 


■>■> 


>> 


>> 


MERCY 


It becomes 
The throned monarch better than his crown ; 
His sceptre shews the force of temporal power, 
The attribute to awe and majesty, 
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; 
But mercy is above this scepter'd sway, 
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


IV. 


I 


» 


No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, 
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, 
Become them with one half so good a grace, 
As mercy does. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


II. 


2 


MOCK— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 


A king 
Of shreds and patches : — 


Hamlet. 


III. 


3 


NAME— POWER ... 


The king's name is a tower of strength. 


Richard III. 


V. 


M 


OBEDIENCE 


The hearts of princes kiss obedience, 

So much they love it ; but to stubborn spirits 

They swell, and grow as terrible as storms. 


Henry Fill. 


III. 


I 


PERSON— SACRED 


There's such divinity doth hedge a king, 
That treason can but peep to what it would, 
Acts little of his will. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


s 


>> >t 


If I could find example 
Of thousands that had struck anointed kings, 
And flourish'd after, I'd not do't ; but since 
Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears not one, 
Let villainy itself forswear't. 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


2 


PRESENCE 


The presence of a king engenders love 
Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends ; 
As it disanimates his enemies. 


Henry Vl.Pt.i. 


III. 


I 


RESPECT 


As jewels lose their glory, if neglected, 
So princes their renown, if not respected. 


Pericles. 


II. 


2 



99 



CLASSIFICATION. 


KINGS— ( Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


SECRETS 


I perceive he was a wise fellow and had good discretion, 
that being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired 










he might know none of his secrets. 


Pericles. 


I. 


3 


,, ... 


Who has a book for all that monarchs do, 










He's more secure to keep it shut than shewn ; 


>> 


>> 


i 


SLEEP 


'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, 
The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, 
The inter-tissued robe of gold and pearl, 
The farced title running 'fore the king, 
The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp 
That beats upon the high shore of this world. — 
No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, 
Not all these, laid in bed majestical, 
Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, 
Who, with a body filled and vacant mind, 


- 








Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread ; 


Henry V. 


IV. 


»» 


,, 


O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile 

In loathsome beds ; and leav'st the kingly couch, 










A watch-case, or a common 'larum bell ? 


Henry IF. Pt. 2. 


III. 


>> 


,, 


Happy low, lie down ; 










Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 


J5 )> 


ft 


>> 


SUBJECTS— WAR 


Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's 
soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the 
wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote 
out of his conscience ; and dying so, death is to him 
advantage; or, not dying, the time was blessedly lost, 










wherein such preparation was gained. 


Henry V. 


IV. 


» 


SUBSTITUTE 


A substitute shines brightly as a king, 
Until a king be by, and then his state 
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook, 


Merchant of 








Into the main of waters. 


Venice. 


V. 


>> 


SYCOPHANTS ... 


It is the curse of kings to be attended 
By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant 
To break within the bloody house of life : 
And, on the winking of authority, 
To understand a law ; to know the meaning 
Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns 










More upon humour than advised respect. 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


,, 


That soak up the king's countenance, his rewards, his 
authorities. But such officers do the king best service in 
the end. He keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his 
jaw ; first mouthed, to be last swallowed. When he 
needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, 






- 




sponge, you shall be dry again. 


Hamlet. 


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TREASON— FEAR 


The shepherd's homely curds, 
His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, 
His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, 
All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, 
Is far beyond a prince's delicates, 
His viands sparkling in a golden cup, 
His body couched in a curious bed, 










When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him. 


Henry VI.Pt.%. 


II. 


5- 


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Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade 
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, 
Than doth a rich embroider' d canopy 










To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ? 


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ICO 



CLASSIFICATION. 



KINGS— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



USURPER ... 



WARS— RESPON- 
SIBILITY 



BLUSHES- 
MODESTY 

CHASTE— COLD 



» » 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DURATION 

FALSE 

HURRIED— SAD ... 

LIPS— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 

SHADOWS 

WOMEN— INFLU- 
ENCE 

„ —MARRIAGE 



COMPACTS 



A vice of kings : 
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule ; 
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, 
And put it in his pocket 1 

If the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy 
reckoning to make; when all those legs, and arms, and 
heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the 
latter day, and cry all — We died at such a place ; some, 
swearing ; some, crying for a surgeon ; some, upon their 
wives left poor behind them; some, upon the debts they 
owe ; some, upon their children rawly left. 



KISSES. 

Steal immortal blessing from her lips ; 
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, 
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin ; 

He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana : a nun of 
winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously ; the very 
ice of chastity is in them. 

His kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy 
bread. 

Pure lips, sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted, 
What bargains may I make, still to be sealing ? 

Restoration, hang 
Thy medicine on my lips ; and let this kiss 
Repair those violent harms. 

So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not 
To those fresh morning drops upon the rose, 

But if thou fall, O then imagine this, 

The earth, in love with thee, thy footing trips, 
And all is but to rob thee of a kiss. 

O, a kiss ! 
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge ! 

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty : 

His kisses are Judas's own children. 

Scants us with a single famish'd kiss, 
Distasted with the salt of broken tears. 

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand 
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. 

Some there be, that shadows kiss ; 
Such have but a shadow's bliss ; 

You may ride us, 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 

Were kisses all the joys in bed, 
One woman would another wed. 



KNAVES. 

I like not fair terms, arid a villain's mind. 



Hamlet. 


in. 


Henry V* 


IV. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


in. 


As You Like It. 


>> 


>» >> 


>> 


Venus and 
Adonis. 




King Lear. 


IV. 


Love'' s Labour 1 s 
Lost. 


>> 


Venus and 
Adonis. 




Coriolanus. 


V. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 




As You Like It. 


III. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


IV. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


I. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


II. 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


Passionate 
Pilgrim. 


verse 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


I. 



IOI 



CLASSIFICATION. 



KNAVES— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



COWARDLY 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



—SLANDER 



-FOOLISH 



EXAMPLE ... 
HYPOCRISY 



You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee ; a tailor 
made thee. 

A knave; a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, 
proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, 
filthy, worsted-stocking knave ; a lilly-livered, action- 
taking knave ; 

A whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical 
rogue ; one-trunk-inheriting slave ; one that would'st be a 
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the 
composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the 
son and heir of a mongrel bitch : 



in heart and mind ; that curled 
my cap, served the lust of mv 



A serving-man, proud 
my hair ; wore gloves in 
mistress's heart, and did the act of darkness with her ; 
swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them 
in the sweet face of heaven : one that slept in the con- 
triving of lust, and waked to do it : Wine loved I deeply ; 
dice dearly ; and in woman out-para moured the Turk : 
False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand ; Hog in sloth, 
fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion 
in prey. 

I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, 
Some busy and insinuating rogue, 
Some cogging cozening slave, to get some office, 
Have not devised this slander ; 

Abused by some most villainous knave, 
Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow : — 

A slippery and subtle knave ; a finder out of occasions ; 
that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages, 
though true advantage never present itself: A devilish 
knave ! 

A knave very voluble ; no farther conscionable, than in 
putting on the mere form of civil and humane seeming, 
for the better compassing of his salt and most hidden 
loose affection ? 

The knave is handsome, young ; and hath all those 
requisites in him, that folly and green minds look after : 
A pestilent complete knave ; 

O, if men were to be saved by merit, what hole in hell 
were hot enough for him ? 

A gross lout, a mindless slave ; 
A hovering temporizer, that 
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, 
Inclining to them both : 

A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, 

A devil, a born devil, on whose nature 
Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, 
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; 
And as, with age, his body uglier grows 
So his mind cankers ; 

The villainy you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall 
go hard, but I will better the instruction. 

When my outward action doth demonstrate 
The native act and figure of my heart 
In compliment extern, 'tis not long after 



King Lear. 


n. 


yy >> 


>> 


>> >> 


>> 


>> >> 


in. 


Othello. 


IV. 


>> 


>> 


a 


ii. 


)> 


>> 


>> 


}) 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


i. 


Winter's Tale. 


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Hamlet. 


ii. 


Tempest. 


IV. 


Merchant of 




Venice. 


III. 



102 



CLASSIFICATION. 



KNAVES— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



HYPOCRISY 



OLD 
PLAIN-DEALING 

RICH— POOR 

SELF-KNOW- 
LEDGE ... 



CARPET— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF .. 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 
ORDER 



ASSUMED 



DANGEROUS 



EACH— OTHER 

FORTUNE- 
POWER ... 

IGNORANCE 



INTUITIVE- 
DANGER 



But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 
For daws to peck at : I am not what I am. 

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. 

Knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence. 

Though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, 
it must not be denied, that I am a plain-dealing villain. 

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones 
may make what price they will. 

Is it possible, he should know what he is, and be what 
he is ? 



KNIGHTS. 



He is knight, dubbed with unhacked rapier, and on 
carpet consideration ; 

When first this order was ordained, 
Knights of the garter were of noble birth ; 
Valiant, and virtuous, full of haughty courage, 
Such as were grown to credit by the wars ; 
Not fearing death, nor shrinking from distress, 
But always resolute in most extremes. 
He then, that is not furnish'd in this sort, 
Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight, 
Profaning this most honourable order ; 



KNOWLEDGE 

(see also learning). 

Talk of court news too, — 

Who loses, and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; — 

And take upon us the mystery of things, 

As if we were God's spies : 

You know no more than others ; but you frame 
Things, that are known alike; which are not wholesome 
To those which would not know them, and yet must 
Perforce be their acquaintance. 

We know each other's faces : for our hearts, — 
He knows no more of mine, than I of yours ; 

Wisdom and fortune combating together, 
If that the former dare but what it can, 
No chance may shake it. 

I have for barbarism spoke more 
Than for that angel knowledge you can say, 

Ignorance is the curse of God, 
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, — 

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust 
Ensuing danger ; as, by proof, we see 
The water swell before a boist'rous storm. 

Like the deadly bullet of a gun, 

His meaning struck her, ere his words begun. 



Othello. 



Much Ado 
About Nothing, 



All's Well That 
Ends Well. 



i. 

ii. 



in. 



IV. 



TwelfthNight. 



Henry Vl.Pt.i. 



King Lear. 



Henry VIII. 

Richard III. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Love's Labour's 
Lost. 

Henry Vl.Pt.l. 



Richard III. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



in. 



IV. 



I. 



in. 



IV. 



ii. 



IO3 



CLASSIFICATION. 


KNOWLEDGE— fContinued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


MISPLACED 


O knowledge ill-inhabited ! worse than Jove in a 
thatch'd house ! 


As You Like It. 


III. 


3 


OCCULT 


There are more things in heaven and earth, 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 


Hamlet. 


I. 


5 


RICHES- 
HONOURS 


More content in course of true delight 
Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, 
Or tie my treasure up in silken bags, 
To please the fool and death. 


Pericles. 


III. 


2 


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I held it ever, 
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend ; 
But immortality attends the former, 
Making a man a god. 


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j> 


SELF-DEPRECA- 
TING 


Wisdom wishes to appear most bright, 
When it doth tax itself : as these black masks 
Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder 
Than beauty could displayed. — 


Measure for 

Measure. 


II. 


4 


TOO MUCH- 
FAME 


Too much to know, is to know naught but fame ; 
And every godfather can give a name. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


I. 


i 




LABOUR. 








AIM 


The sweat of industry would dry, and die, 
But for the end it works to. 


Cymbeline. 


III. 


6 


FOR— ALL 


Here is more matter for a hot brain : every lane's end, 
every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man 
work. 


Winter's Tale. 


IV - 


3 


» j> 


There's place, and means, for every man alive. 


All's Well That 






HOLIDAYS 


If all the year were playing holydays, 

To sport would be as tedious as to work ; 

But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, 


Ends Well. 
Henry IV.Pt.i. 


I. 


2 


LABOURER— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


When workmen strive to do better than well, 
They do confound their skill in covetousness : 


King John. 


IV. 


)t 


V ft 


I am a true labourer ; I earn that I eat, get that I wear ; 
owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness ; glad of other 
men's good, content with my harm : 


As You Like It. 


III. 


>> 


PLEASURE 


The labour we delight in physics pain. 


Macbeth. 


II. 


3 




LAUGHTER. 








TEARS 


I must confess 
Made mine eyes water ; but more merry tears 
The passion of loud laughter never shed. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


V. 


i 


WINNERS 


They laugh that win. 


Othello. 


IV. 


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104 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LAW. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



BONDS 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
„ —DORMANT 

—JURIES 



DORMANT— EVIL 



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ELOQUENCE 

IGNORANCE 

MERCY 

POOR (THE) 
SELF— OTHERS ... 
WRONGS 



LAW. 



Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an 
innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parch- 
ment, being scribbled o'er should undo a man ? Some 
say, the bee stings : but I say, 'tis the bee's wax, for I did 
but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man 
since. 

The rusty curb of old father antic the law ? 

All the enrolled penalties 
Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall 
So long .... 

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 

May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two 

Guiltier than him they try: What's open made to justice, 

That justice seizes. What know the laws, 

That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant, 

The jewel that we find, we stop and take it, 

Because we see it ; but what we do not see, 

We tread upon, and never think of it. 

Our decrees, 
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead ; 
And liberty plucks justice by the nose; 
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart 
Goes all decorum. 

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept ; 
Those many had not dared to do that evil, 
If the first man, that did the edict infringe, 
Had answer'd for his deed : now, 'tis awake ; 
Takes note of what is done ; and, like a prophet, 
Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils, 
(Either now, or by remissness new-conceived, 
And so in progress to be hatch'd and born,) 
Are now to have no successive degrees, 
But where they live, to end. 

We must not make a scare-crow of the law, 
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, 
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it 
Their perch and not their terror. 

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 
But, being season'd with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the show of evil ? 

I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment ; 
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, 
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. 

Pity is the virtue of the law, 

And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 

A fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the 
law ; 'twill hardly come out. 

How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us, 
When thou hast broke it in such dire degree? 

When law can do no right, 
Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong : 

Since law itself is perfect wrong, 
How can the law forbid my tongue to curse ? 



Henry FI.Pt.2. 
Henry IV.Pt.i. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



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}■> )i 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Henry VI. Pt. i 

Timon of 
Athens. 



Pericles. 



Richard III. 



King John. 



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IV. 

I. 



ii. 



II. I 2 



III. 



II. 



III. 



II. 



I. 



III. 



I05 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LAWYERS. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





LAWYERS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Do as adversaries do in law, 

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


i. 


2 


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Crack the lawyer's voice, 
That he may never more false title plead, 
Nor sound his quillets shrilly : 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 


GOOD— CLIENTS 


Good counsellors lack no clients : 


Measure for 
Measure. 


i. 


2 


„ DESCRIPTIVE 
OF 


I charge you by the law, 
Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar, 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


IV. 


I 


TIME— VACATION 


Stays it still with lawyers in the vacation : for they sleep 
between term and term, and then they perceive not how 
time moves. 


As You Like It. 


III. 


2 




LEARNING (see also knowledge). 








ADVICE 


Talk logic with acquaintance that you have, 

And practice rhetoric in your common talk ; 

Music and poesy use to quicken you ; 

The mathematics, and the metaphysics, 

Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you : 

No profit grows, where is no pleasure ta'en ; — 

In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


I. 


I 


ASTRONOMY 


These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, 
That give a name to every fixed star, 

Have no more profit of their shining nights, 

Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


55 


5> 


BEAUTY— WOMEN 


From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: 
They are the ground, the books, the academes, 
From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire ; 


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IV. 


3 


55 55 


From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: 
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; 
They are the books, the arts, the academes, 
That shew, contain, and nourish all the world ; 
Else, none at all in aught proves excellent. 


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55 


55 


» 55 


Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, 
And where we are, our learning likewise is. 
Then, when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes, 
Do we not likewise see our learning there : 


55 55 


55 


55 


HEALTH 


Universal plodding prisons up 
The nimble spirits in the arteries ; 
As motion, and long-during action, tires 
The sinewy vigour of the traveller. 


55 55 


55 


5> 


LOST 


Study evermore is overshot : 
While it doth study to have what it would, 
It doth forget to do the thing it should ; 
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 
'Tis won, as towns with fire — so won, so lost. 


55 55 


I. 


I 


MIND— BODY ... 


The mind shall banquet, though the body pine : 


55 55 


55 


5> 


POVERTY 


The thrice three Muses mourning for the death 
Of learning, late deceased in beggary. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


V. 


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106 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LEARNING— (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


RICHES— HONORS 


I held it ever, 
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend ; 
But immortality attends the former, 










Making a man a god. 


Pericles. 


III. 


2 


TOO LATE 


You, to study now it is too late, 


Love's Labour's 








Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate. 


Lost. 


I. 


I 


VAIN 


All delights are vain ; but that most vain, 
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain : 
As, painfully to pore upon a book, 

To seek the light of truth ; while truth the while 










Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look ; 


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Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile : 
So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, 










Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. 


11 ii 


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11 


,, 


Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, 

That will not be deep-search 'd with saucy looks ; 
Small have continual plodders ever won, 










Save base authority from others' books. 


ii ii 


11 


11 




LIBERALITY (charity). 








CHURCHMEN ... 


Sparing would shew a worse sin than ill doctrine : 
Men of his way should be most liberal, 










They are set here for examples. 


Henry VIII. 


I. 


3 


GODS— MEN 


Bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men. 


Timon of 






TRUE 


There's none 


Athens. 


IV. 


2 




Can truly say, he gives, if he receives : 


ii ii 


I. 


11 


j) 


'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, 










But to support him after. — 


ii ii 


11 


I 


,, 


Lady, you know no rules of charity, 










Which tenders good for bad, blessings for curses .... 


Richard III. 


11 


2 




LIBERTY. 








HEADSTRONG ... 


Headstrong liberty is lashed with wo. 


Comedy of 






LIMITED 


There's nothing, situate under heaven's eye, 


Errors. 


II. 


I 
1 




But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky ; 


ii ii 


11 


ii 




LIFE (see also man). 








BASE 


The time of life is short ; 
To spend that shortness basely, were too long, 
If life did ride upon a dial's point, 










Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 


HenrylF.PtA. 


V. 





107 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LIFE — (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DEATH— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF 



DESCRIPTIVE OF- 
BREVITY 



-DREAM 



—END 



—STAGE 



FUTURE— CARE- 
LESS 

—HOPE 



GREAT MEN 



HOPELESS 



MADNESS 



Yet she must die, 
Put out the light, and then — Put. out the light ! 
If I quench thee, thou naming minister, 
I can again thy former light restore, 
Should I repent me : but once put out thine, 
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, 
I know not where is that Promethean heat, 
That can thy light relume. 

A man's life's no more than to say, one. 

Out, out, brief candle ! 
Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, 
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 
And then is heard no more : it is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing. 

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 
To the last syllable of recorded time ; 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. 

We are such stuff 
As dreams are made of, and our" little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. — 

Last scene of all, 
That ends this strange eventful history, 
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 

All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players : 
They have their exits, and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts, 

For the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it. — 

Even through the hollow eyes of death, 
I spy life peering ; 

The single and peculiar life is bound, 
With all the strength and armour of the mind, 
To keep itself from 'noyance ; but much more 
That spirit, upon whose weal depend and rest 
The lives of many. 

To me can life be no commodity ; 
The crown and comfort of my life, 
I do give lost ; 

For life, I prize it 
As I weigh grief, which I would spare : 

Like madness is the glory of this life, 

The thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to. — 

The whips and scorns of time, 
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, 
The insolence of office, and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes, 



Othello. 



Hamlet. 



Macbeth. 



Tempest. 



As You Like It 



» >y 



Winter's Tale. 



Richard II. 



Hamlet. 



Winter's Tale, 



Timon of 
Athens. 

Hamlet. 



IV. 



ii. 



IV. 



IT. 



III. 



III. 



108 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LIFE — (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


MISERIES 


Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry, — 
As, to behold desert a beggar born, 
And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, 
And purest faith unhappily forsworn, 
And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd, 
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, 
And right perfection wrongfully disgrace'd, 
And strength by limping sway disabled, 
And art made tongue-tied by authority, 
And folly (doctor-like) controlling skill, 


Sonnet 65. 






it 


O, how full of briers is this working-day world ! 


.4s You Like It. 


1. 


3 


,, 


Reason thus with life, — 
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing 
That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, 
(Servile to all the skyey influences,) 
That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, 
Hourly afflict : merely, thou art death's fool ; 
For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, 


Measure for 








And yet run'st toward him still : 


Measure. 


in. 


1 


NOBLENESS 


0, this life 










Is nobler, than attending for a check ; 










Richer, than doing nothing for a bauble ; 










Prouder, than rustling in unpaid-for silk : 


Cymheline. 


n 


3 


RURAL 


Under the shade of melancholy boughs, 










Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time, 


As You Like It. 


11. 


7 


,, 


Life exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 










Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 


11 11 


n 


1 


V 


Hath not old custom made this life more sweet 
Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods 
More free from peril than the envious court ? 
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, 
The season's difference ; as, the icy fang, 
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; 
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, 
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — 
This is no flattery : these are counsellors, 










That feelingly persuade me what I am. 


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SWEETNESS 


O our lives' sweetness ! 
That with the pain of death we'd hourly die, 










Rather than die at once ! 


King Lear. 


v. 


3 


TEDIOUS 


Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 










Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; 


King jFohn. 


in. 


4 




LOSSES. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF— 










SEARCH 


I to the world am like a drop of water, 
That in the ocean seeks another drop ; 
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, 


Comedy of 








Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself : 


Errors. 


1. 


2 


GIFTS— HEAVEN 


you Gods ! 
Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, 
And snatch them straight away ? We, here below, 
Recall not what we give, and therein may 










Vie honour with yourselves. 


Pericles. 


in. 


1 



109 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LOSSES — (Continued_) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



IRREPARABLE ... 


Irreparable is the loss ; and Patience 
Says 'tis past her cure. 


Tempest. 


v. 


I 


VALUE 


That what we have we prize not to the worth, 
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, 
Why, then we rack the value, then we find 
The virtue, that possession would not shew us. 


Much Ado 
about Nothi?ig. 


IV. 


33 




LOVE. 








ABSENCE 


O absence, what a torment wouldst thou prove, 
Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave 

To entertain the time with thoughts of love, 

(Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,) 


Sonnet 39. 






ADVICE— FUTILE 


Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, 
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow, 
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


11. 


7 


33 33 


When thou impressest, what are precepts worth 
Of stale example ? 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






33 S3 


Affection is not rated from the heart : 


Taming of the 






AGE 


You cannot call it, love : for at your age, 
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, 
And waits upon the judgment, 


Shrew 
Hamlet. 


1. 
in. 


1 
3 


j, 


O, love's best habit is in seeming trust, 
And age in love loves not to have years told : 


Sonnet 138. 






APPOINTMENTS... 


O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly 
To seal love's bonds new made, than they are wont, 
To keep obliged faith unforfeited ! 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


11. 


6 


ASSERTING— 
GREAT 


If heaven would make me such another world 
Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, 
I'd not have sold her for it. 


Othello. 


v. 


2 


BACCHUS 


Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste. 


Love's Labour's 






BLINDNESS 


Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, 
That they behold, and see not what they see ? 

They know what beauty is, see where it lies, 
Yet what the best is, take the worst to be. 


Lost. 
Sonnet 137. 


IV. 


3 


>} 


Love is blind, and lovers cannot see 

The pretty follies that themselves commit ; 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


II. 


6 


CHANCE 


Love is blind. 

Loving goes by haps : 
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Much Ado 


33 


1 


CHOICE 


Rich she shall be, that's certain ; wise, or I'll none ; 
virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her ; fair, or I'll never look 
on her ; mild, or come not near me ; noble, or not I for an 
angel ; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her 
hair shall be of what colour it please God. 


About Nothing. 
33 >> 


III. 
II. 


3 


„ —ANOTHER'S 


O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


I. 


1 


COMPANY 


Love keeps his revels where there are but twain ; 


Venus and 






CONCEALMENT ... 


She never told her love, 
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; 
And, with a green and yellow melancholy, 


Adonis. 







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CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued). 


PLAT OB. POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


GONCEALMENT ... 


She sat like Patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. 


Twelfth Night. 


II. 


4 


CONFESSION 


By the roses of the spring, 
By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything, 
I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, 
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. 


jj jj 


III. 


i 


,, 


Had I no eyes, but ears, my ears would love 
That inward beauty and invisible; 

Or, were I deaf, thy outward parts would move 
Each part in me that were but sensible : 

Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, 

Yet should I be in love, by touching thee. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






„ ... 


I am sure, my love's 
More richer than my tongue. 


King Lear. 


I. 


jj 


,, ... 


A love, that makes breath poor, and speech unable ; 
Beyond all manner of so much I love you. 


jj jj 


JJ 


j> 


j> 


I do love you more than words can wield the matter, 
Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty ; 
Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare ; 


jj jj 


JJ 


jj 


,, 


That art most rich, being poor ; 
Most choice, forsaken ; and most loved, despised I 


jj jj 


JJ 


jj 


,, 


Perdition catch my soul, 
But I do love thee, and, when I love thee not, 
Chaos is come again. 


Othello. 


III. 


2 


,, ... 


My story being done, 
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : 
She swore, — In faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful : 
She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd 
That Heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me, 
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, 
I should but teach him how to tell my story, 
And that would woo her. Upon this hint, I spake ; 


5) 


I. 


3 


„ 


I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver 
Of my whole course of love ; 


JJ 


JJ 


j> 


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I confess, it is my shame to be so fond ; but it is not in 
virtue to amend it. 


JJ 


JJ 


jj 


jj ••■ 


Love on, I will requite thee : 
Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand ; 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


III. 


i 


jj 


They say, the lady is fair, — 'tis a truth, I can bear them 
witness ; and virtuous, — 'tis so, I cannot reprove it ; and 
wise, but for loving me : — By my troth, it is no addition to 
her wit ; — nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be 
horribly in love with her. 


jj jj 


II. 


3 


>j 


I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye, 
That liked, but had a rougher task in hand 
Than to drive liking to the name of love : 
But now I am return'd, and that war thoughts 
Have left their places vacant, in their rooms 
Come thronging soft and delicate desires. 


jj jj 


I. 


i 


jj 


So holy, and so perfect is my love, 
And I in such a poverty of grace, 
That I shall think it a most plenteous crop 
To glean the broken ears after the man 
That the main harvest reaps : loose now and then 
A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon. 


As You Like It m 


III. 


5 



III 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


CONFESSION 


That same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of 
thought, conceived of spleen, and born of madness, — that 
blind rascally boy, that abuses every one's eyes, because 
his own are out, — let him be judge, how deep I am in love. 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


I 


,, 


I'll prove more true 
Than those that have more cunning to be strange. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


11. 


2 


,, 


My bounty is as boundless as the sea, 
My love as deep ; the more I give to thee, 
The more I have, for both are infinite. — 


>» »» 


>> 


>> 


53 


She is so conjunctive to my life and soul, 
That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, ' 
I could not but by her. 


Ham let. 


IV. 


7 


,, 


And I, forsooth, in love ! I, that have been love's whip ; 
A very beadle to a humorous sigh ; 
A critic ; nay, a night-watch constable ; 
A domineering pedant o'er the boy, 
Than whom no mortal so magnificent ! 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


111. 


1 


,, 


Farther I will not flatter you, 

That all I see in you is worthy love, 

Than this, — that nothing do I see in you, 

(Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your 

judge,) 
That I can find should merit any hate. 


King John. 


11. 


2 


,, 


Beshrew me, but I love her heartily, 
For she is wise, if I can judge of her; 
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true ; 
And true she is, as she hath proved herself ; 
And therefore, like herself, wise, fair, and true, 
Shall she be placed in my constant soul. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


fy 


6 


,, ... 
,, ... 


Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go ? 

Thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me, 
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


JI1. 


2 
r 


,, 


Were I crown'd the most imperial monarch, 
Thereof most worthy ; were I the fairest youth 
That ever made eye swerve ; had force and knowledge 
More than was ever man's, — I would not prize them, 
Without her love : for her, employ them all ; 
Commend them, and condemn them, to her service, 
Or to their own perdition. 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


,, 


Ever, till now, 
When men were fond, I smiled, and wonder'd how. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


II. 


2 


,, 


Myself have often heard him say, and swear, — 
That this his love was an eternal plant : 
Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground, 
The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun ; 


Henry VI. Pt.3. 


III. 


3 


„ 


I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — 
I love you : 


Henry V. 


V. 


2 


CONSCIENCE 


Love is too young to know what conscience is; 
Yet who knows not, conscience is born of love ? 


Sonnet 151. 






CONSUMMATED... 


Strange love, grown bold, 
Think true love acted, simple modesty. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


III. 


j» 


COUNTERFEIT ... 


There never was counterfeit of passion come so near the 
life of passion, as she discovers it. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


II. 


3 


DEATH 


The idea of her life shall sweetly creep 
Into his study of imagination ; u 









112 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DEATH 


And every lovely organ of her life 
Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, 
More moving-delicate, and full of life, 
Into the eye and prospect of his soul, 
Than when she lived indeed. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


IV. 


I 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Cupid lay by his brand, and fell asleep ; 

A maid of Dian's this advantage found, 
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep 

In a cold valley-fountain of that ground : 
Which borrow'd from this holy fire of love 

A dateless lively heat, still to endure, 
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove, 

Against strange maladies a sovereign cure. 


Sonnet 153. 






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The little love-god lying once asleep, 

Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, 
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep, 

Came tripping by ; but in her maiden hand 
The fairest votary took up that fire 

Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd ; 
And so the general of hot desire 

Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm' d. 


» 157- 






n >> 


Love's fire heats water, water cools not love. 


» 154- 






>> » 


Love is a smoke, raised with the fume of sighs ; 
Being purged, a fire, sparkling in lovers' eyes ; 
Being vex'd, a sea, nourish'd with lovers' tears : 

A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


I. 


)) 


» » 


This drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs 
lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. 


>> >> 


II. 


4 


» >> 


It shall be cause of war, and dire events, 
And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire : 

Subject and servile to all discontents, 
As dry combustious matter is to fire : 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






t> » 


It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud ; 

Bud and be blasted in a breathing- while ; 
The bottom poison, and the top o'er-straw'd 

With sweets, that shall the truest sight beguile : 
The strongest body shall it make most weak : 
Strike the wise dumb, and teach the fool to speak. 


>> n 






>> >> 


Love, love, nothing but love, still more ! 

For, oh, love's bow 

Shoots buck and doe : 

The shaft confounds 

Not that it wounds, 
But tickles still the sore. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


I 


>> >> 


It shall be sparing, and too full of riot, 

Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures ; 

The staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet, 

Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with treasures : 

It shall be raging-mad, and silly mild, 

Make the young old, the old become a child. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






•« >> 


It shall be waited on with jealousy, 

Find sweet beginning, but unsavory end ; 
Ne'er settled equally, but high or low ; 
That all love's pleasure shall not match his wo. 


>> if 






•» » 


They that love best, their loves shall not enjoy. 


17 » 







Il 3 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


O hard-believing love, how strange it seems 
Not to believe, and yet too credulous I 

Thy weal and wo are both of them extremes ; 
Despair and hope make thee ridiculous : 

The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely, 

In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






tt >> 


It shall suspect, where is no cause of fear ; 

It shall not fear, where it should most mistrust. 
It shall be merciful, and too severe, 
And most deceiving when it seems most just; 
Perverse it shall be, where it shows most toward ; 
Put fear to valour, courage to the coward. 


11 a 






77 >> 


Affection is a coal that must be cool'd ; 
Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire : 


» >> 






>> f) 


This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, 
This senior- junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid ; 










Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, 
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, 
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents, 
Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces, 
Sole imperator, and great general 


Love's Labour's 








Of trotting paritors, — 


Lost. 


III. 


I 


>> 77 


Love is a familiar ; love is a devil : there is no evil angel 










but love. 


» >> 


I. 


2 


» .»> 


On a day, (alack the day !) 
Love, whose month is ever May, 
Spied a blossom, passing fair, 
Playing in the wanton air : 
Through the velvet leaves the wind, 
All unseen, 'gan passage find ; 
That the lover, sick to death, 










Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. 


» 77 


IV. 


3 


» >» 


For valour, is not love a Hercules, 
Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? 
Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, 










As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; 


>> >> 


77 


77 


» >> 


Love is full of unbefitting strains ; 
All wanton as a child, skipping, and vain ; 
Form'd by the eye, and therefore like the eye, 
Full of strange shapes, and habits, and of forms, 
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll 










To every varied object in his glance : 


» » 


V. 


2 


JJ » 


This is the monstruosity in love, lady, — that the will is 
infinite, and the execution confined ; that the desire is 


• 

Troilus and 








boundless, and the act a slave to limit. 


Cressida. 


III. 


)> 


>> » 


In all 










Cupid's pageant there is presented no monster. 


» it 


>> 


77 


»> >> 


Love hath twenty pair of eyes. 


Two Gentlemen 










of Verona. 


II. 


4 


>7 ?> 


The current, that with gentle murmur glides, 

Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; 

But, when his fair course is not hindered, 

He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, 

Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge 

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; 

And so by many winding nooks he strays, 










With willing sport, to the wild ocean. 


It 77 


>> 


7 






ii4 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LOVE— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



sc. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DISCOVERY 
DISCLAIMING 



To be 
In love, where scorn is bought with groans ; coy looks 
With heart-sore sighs : one fading moment's mirth, 
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights : 
If haply won, perhaps, a hapless gain; 
If lost, why then a grievous labour won. 
However, but a folly bought with wit, 
Or else a wit by folly vanquished. 

Love is a spirit all compact of fire, 

Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. 

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, 
Love can transpose to form and dignity. 
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; 
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind : 
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste ; 
Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste : 
And therefore is love said to be a child, 
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. 
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear, 
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere : 

Nothing can affection's course control, 
Or stop the headlong fury of his speed. 

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, 
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof ! 

A murd'rous guilt shews not itself more soon 

Than love that would seem hid; love's night is noon. 

For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love 
And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, 
To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, 
And never shall it more be gracious. 

I do much wonder, that one man, seeing how much an- 
other man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to 
love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in 
others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling 
in love : 

May I be so converted, and see with these eyes ? I can- 
not tell ; I think not : I will not be sworn, but love may 
transform me to an oyster : but I'll take my oath on it, till 
he hath made an oyster of me, he shall never make me 
such a fool. 

One woman is fair, yet I am well ; another is wise, yet 
I am well ; another virtuous, yet I am well : but till all 
graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my 
grace. 

When light-wing'd toys 
Of feather' d Cupid seal with wanton dullness 
My speculative and active instruments, 
That my disports corrupt and taint my business, 
Let housewives make a skillet of my helm, 
And all indign and base adversities 
Make head against my estimation ! 

All my fond love thus I do blow to heaven : 

I had rather be a toad, 
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, 
Than keep a corner in the thing I love, 
For others' uses. 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Tarquin. 

Romeo and 
yuliet. 

Twelfth Night, in. 



Much Ado 

About Nothing.- iv. 



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>> >> 



)> >> 



Othello. 



ii. 



i. 
in. 



"5 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LOVE— ( Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DISCLAIMING 



DYING 



EARNEST— SPORT 



ENTREATING 






My love to love is love but to disgrace it ; 
For I have heard it is a life in death, 
That laughs, and weeps, and all but with a breath. 

If love have lent you twenty thousand tongues, 
And every tongue more moving than your own, 

Bewitching like the wanton mermaid's songs, 
Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown ; 

For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear 

And will not let a false sound enter there; 

(But, by some power it is,) my love to Hermia, 
Melted as doth the snow, seems to me now 
As the remembrance of an idle gaud, 
Which in my childhood I did dote upon : 

If e'er I lov'd her, all that love is gone. 

My heart with her but, as guest-wise, sojourn'd ; 

What ? I ! I love ! I sue ! I seek a wife ! 
A woman, that is like a German clock, 
Still a-repairing ; ever out of frame ; 
And never going aright, being a watch, 
But being watch' d that it may still go right ? 

Rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid 
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, 
And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, 
Be shook to air. 

Believe not, that the dribbling dart of love 
Can pierce a complete bosom : 

The brains of my Cupid's knocked out ; and I begin to 
love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach. 

This word — love, which greybeards call divine, 
Be resident in men like one another, 
And not in me, I am myself alone. — 

Love ? — I love thee not, 
I care not for thee : this is no world, 
To play with mammets, and to tilt with lips : 

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in 
all this time there were not any man died in his own 
person, vide-licet, in a love cause. 

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten 
them, but not for love. 

Love no man in good earnest ; nor no farther in sport 
neither, than with safety of a pure blush thou may'st in 
honour come off again. 

Art thou a woman's son, and cans't not feel 

What 'tis to love ? how want of love tormenteth ? 

Oh ! learn to love ; the lesson is but plain, 
And once made perfect, never lost again. 

Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won, 

Beauteous thou art, and therefore to be assail'd: 

And when a woman woos, what woman's son 
Will sourly leave her till she have prevail' d. 

Nip not the gaudy blos'soms of your love, 

In your fine frame hath love no quality ? 

If the quick fire of youth light not your mind, 

You are no maiden, but a monument : 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream, 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 



Troilus and 

Cressida. 

Measure for 
Measure. 

All's Well That 
Ends Well 



Henry FI.Pt.3 
Henry IV.Pt.i. 
As You Like It. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



Sonnet 41. 

Love's Labour's 
Lost. 

All's Well That 
Ends Well. 



Il6 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LOVE— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



EXCUSE 



FAITHLESS 



FAULTS 



FEARS 



FIRST-SIGHT 



11 



FLATTERY 
FOLLY 



FOOD 



FORTUNE., 



It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus ; 
You bred him as my play-fellow ; and he is 
A man worth any woman ; overbuys me 
Almost the sum he pays. 

I know his eye doth homage otherwhere ; 

Since that my beauty cannot please his eye, 
I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die. 

My love doth so approve him, 
That even his stubbornness, his checks, and frowns, — 
— have grace and favour in them. 

Your love and pity doth the impression fill 

Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow ; 

For what care I who calls me well or ill, 
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow ? 

You are my all-the-world, and I must strive 

To know my shames and praises from your tongue ; 

Fie, fie, fond love, thou art so full of fear, 

As one with treasure laden, hemm'd with thieves ; 

Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear, 

Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves. 

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; 
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. 

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth : 

I have no joy of this contract to-night : 
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; 
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, 
Ere one can say — It lightens. 

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, 
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. 

Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight ? 

No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but 
they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner 
sighed, but they asked one another the reason ; no sooner 
knew the reason, but they sought the remedy : 

At the first sight 
They have changed eyes.— 

(Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing, 
To the smothering of the sense) 

Love is wise in folly, 

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly ! 

Love is your master, for he masters you : 
And he, that is so yoked by a fool, 
Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise. 

Though the chamelion Love can feed on the air, I am one 
that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have 
meat. 

Tell her, my love, more noble than the world, 

Prizes not quantity of dirty lands : 

The parts, that fortune hath bestow'd upon her, 

Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune; 

But 'tis that miracle, and queen of gems, 

That nature pranks her in, attracts my soul. 



Cymbeline. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



n n 



Othello. 



Sonnet 112. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 

Hamlet. 
Tarquin. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

11 11 

As You Like It. 



» ii 



Tempest. 

Cymbeline, 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

As You Like It. 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 



ii ii 



Twelfth Night. 



ii. 



IV 



in. 



ii. 



in. 



v. 



III. 



II. 



II. 



117 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LOVE — (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



FREE 

FRIENDSHIP 

GREAT— UNWISE 
GRIEF 

HATE 

HOPELESS- 
AMBITIOUS .. 



HUNTING.., 



IMAGINATION 



IMMODERATE 



-TRANSIENT 



118 



In maiden meditation, fancy free. 

Friendship is constant in all other things, 

Save in the office and affairs of love: 

Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues ; 

Let every eye negotiate for itself, 

And trust no agent : for beauty is a witch, 

Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. 

One that loved not wisely, but too well : 

Love can comment upon every wo. 

Sweet love, I see, changing his property, 
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate : — 

The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: 
The hind, that would be mated by the lion, 
Must die for love. 

It were all one, 
That I should love a bright particular star, 
And think to wed it, he is so above me : 

O then give pity 
To her, whose state is such, that cannot choose 
But lend and give, where she is sure to lose ; 
That seeks not to find that he-r search implies, 
But, riddle-like, lives sweetly where she dies. 

I know I love in vain, strive against hope ; 

Yet, in this captious and intenible sieve, 

I still pour in the waters of my love, 

And lack not to lose still : thus, Indian-like, 

Religious in mine error, I adore 

The sun that looks upon his worshipper, 

But knows of him no more. 

Hunting he lov'd, but love he laugh'd to scorn; 

The imaginary relish is so sweet, 
That it enchants my sense : What will it be, 
When that the watery palate tastes indeed 
Love's thrice-reputed nectar ? 

How sweet is love itself possess'd, 
When but love's shadows are so rich in joy ! 

love, be moderate, allay thy ecstacy, 

In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess ; 

1 feel too much thy blessing, make it less, 
For fear I surfeit ! 

'Tis mad idolatry, 
To make the service greater than the god ; 
And the will dotes, that is attributive 
To what infectiously itself affects, 
Without some image of the affected merit. 

This is the very ecstacy of love ; 
Whose violent property foredoes itself, 
And leads the will to desperate undertakings, 
As oft as any passion under heaven, 
That does afflict our natures. 

These violent delights have violent ends, 
And in their triumph die ; like fire and powder, 
Which, as they kiss, consume : 



Midsummer 
Nigh? s Dream 



Much Ado 
Al-out Nothing. 

Othello. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

Richard II. 

AlV sPFell That 
E?ids Well. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Hamlet. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



ii. 



v. 



in. 



in. 



in. 



it. 









CLASSIFICATION. 



LOVE — (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



IMPEDIMENTS 



IMPERFECT 
INFINITE ... 
JEALOUSY... 



LETTERS ... 



LUST 



Passion lends them power, time means to meet, 
Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet. 

With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls : 
For stony limits cannot hold love out : 

When thou wilt inflame, 
How coldly those impediments stand forth 
Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame? 

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, 

But then woos best, when most his choice is froward. 

Things out of hope are compass' d oft with vent' ring, 
Chiefly in love, whose leave exceeds commission : 

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, 

Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last. 

These lets attend the time, 
Like little frosts that sometime threat the spring, 
To add a more rejoicing to the prime, 

And give the sneaped birds more cause to sing. 

The course of true love never did run smooth : 

She knew her distance, and did angle for me, 
Madding my eagerness with her restraint, 
As all impediments in fancy's course 
Are motives of more fancy ; 

She knew well, 
Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell. 

The sea hath bounds, but deep desire hath none : 

Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy 
Doth call himself affection's sentinel : 

It shall suspect, where is no cause of fear : 

It shall not fear, where it should most mistrust. 

Love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy. 

O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer, 
That knew the stars as I his characters ; 
He'd lay the future open. — 

Sweet love ! sweet lines ! sweet life ! 
Here is her hand, the agent of her heart ; 
Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn : 

Call it not love, for Love to Heaven is fled, 

Since sweating Lust on earth usurp 'd his name; 

Under whose simple semblance he hath fed 
Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame ; 

Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain, 
But lust's effect is tempest after sun ; 

Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, 
Lust's Winter comes ere summer half be done. 



Love surfeits not ; lust like a glutton dies : 
Love is all truth ; lust full of forged lies. 

I take this, that you call — love, to be . . . 
a lust of the blood, and a permission of the will. 

Their love may be call'd appetite, — 
No motion of the liver, but the palate, — 
That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt ; 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Lover's Com- 
plaint. 

F^enus and 
Adonis. 



merely 



Tarquin. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream 

AWs Well That 
Ends Well. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 



Cymleline. 

Tico Gentlemen 
of Verona. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



>> »» 



>> >? 



»> » 



Othello. 



Twelfth Night, 



ii. 



ii. 



in. 



ii. 



II 9 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


MADNESS 


Love is merely a madness ; and, deserves as well a dark 
house and a whip, as madmen do : and the reason why 
they are not so punished and cured, is, that the lunacy is so 
ordinary that the whip per s are in love too : 


As You Like It. 


III. 


2 


MEMORY 


O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily 
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly, 
That ever love did make thee run into. 


>> >> 


II. 


4 


MEN 


We men may say more, swear more : but, indeed, 
Our shows are more than will ; for still we prove 
Much in our vows, but little in our love. 


Twelfth Night. 


if 


tf 


MESSENGERS 


Love's heralds should be thoughts, 
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, 


Romeo and 
yuliet. 


ii 


5 


MIRTH 


Revels, dances, masks, and merry hours, 
Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


3 


MODERATE- 
LONG 


Love moderately ; long love doth so ; 


Romeo and 
yuliet. 


II. 


6 


MUSIC 


When love speaks, the voice of all the gods 
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


3 


» 


Music, moody food 
Of us that trade in love. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


5 


»» 


If music be the food of love, play on, 
Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, 
The appetite may sicken, and so die. — 


Tivelfth Night. 


I. 


i 


MUTUAL 


I think, there is not half a kiss to choose, 
Who loves another best. 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


OBEDIENCE 


Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


II. 


i 


PARTINGS 


Love goes towards love, as school-boys from their books ; 
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. 


Romeo and 
yuliet. 


if 


2 


PERFECT 


Time, force, and death, 
Do to this body what extremes you can ; 
But the strong base and building of my love 
Is as the very centre of the earth, 
Drawing all things to it. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


IV. 


)> 


j> 


My love admits no qualifying dross : 


a » 


ft 


3 


,, 


Love is not love, 
When it is mingled with respects, that stand 
Aloof from the entire point. 


King Lear. 


I. 


i 


PITY 


I pity you. 

That's a degree to love. 


Tivelfth Night. 


III. 


tt 


n 


She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd ; 
And I loved her, that 'she did pity them. 


Othello. 


I. 


3 


PLEASURE— MAD- 
NESS 


No settled senses of the world can match 
The pleasure of that madness. 


Winter's Tale. 


V. 


tt 


POETS 


Never durst poet touch a pen to write, 

Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs : 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


if 


POWER 


Love, first learned in a lady's eyes, 
Lives not alone immured in the brain ; 
But with the motion of all elements, 
Courses as swift as thought in every power ; 
And gives to every power a double power, 
Above their functions and their offices. 


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ti 


tt 



120 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — ( Contin ued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


POWER 


Yet Sampson was so tempted ; and he had an excellent 
strength : yet was Solomon so seduced ; and he had a very 
good wit. Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' 
club. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


1. 


2 


„ 


His disgrace is to be called boy; but his glory is to 
subdue men. 


tt >> 


tt 


tt 


n 


You were wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock ; 
when you walked, to walk like one of the lions ; when you 
fasted, it was presently after dinner ; when you looked 
sadly, it was for want of money : and now you are meta- 
morphosed with a mistress, 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


11. 


I 


n 


I have done penance for contemning love, 
Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me 
With bitter fasts, with penitential groans, 
With nightly tears, and daily heart-sore sights ; 


tt tt 


tt 


4 


a 


In revenge of my contempt of love, 
Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes, 
And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow. 


it it 


tt 


tt 


„ 


Love's a mighty lord ; 
And hath so humbled me, as, I confess, 
There is no woe to his correction, 
Nor, to his service, no such joy on earth ! 
Now, no discourse, except it be of love : 
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep, 
Upon the very naked name of love. 


53 5> 


a 


tt 


„ 


A. true-devoted pilgrim is not weary 
To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps ; 
Much less shall she, that hath love's wings to fly ; 


3J » 


tt 


7 


J, 


As in the sweetest bud 
The eating canker dwells, so eating love 
Inhabits in the finest wits of all. 


It tt 


1. 


1 


j, 


Love makes young men thrall, and old men dote ; 


Venus and 






,, 


The strongest body shall it make most weak : 
Strike the wise dumb, and teach the fool to speak. 


Ado?iis. 
tt tt 






„ 


The staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet, 

Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with treasures : 


tt tt 






tt 


His soul is so enfetter'd to her love, 

That she may make, unmake, do what she list, 


Othello. 


11. 


3 


ft 


If ever (as that ever may be near) 
You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, 
Then shall you know the wounds invisible, 
That love's keen arrows make. 


As You Like It. 


in. 


5 


ji 


Thy love is better than high birth to me, 

Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost, 

Of more delight than hawks or horses be ; 
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast. 

Wretched in this alone, that thou may 'st take 

All this away, and me most wretched make. 


Sonnet 91. 






,, 


What love can do, that dares love attempt ; 


Romeo and 






it 


O most potential love ! vow, bond nor space, 
In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine, 
For thou art all, and all things else are thine. 


Juliet. 

Lover's Com- 
plaint. 


11. 


2 


ft 


Thou knew'st too well, 
My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings, 
And thou shouldst tow me after : O'er my spirit 









121 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE— ( Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


POWER 


Thy full supremacy thou knew'st; and that 
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods 
Command me. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


in. 


9 


PROSPERITY 


This world is not for aye ; nor 'tis not strange, 
That even our loves should with our fortune change ; 
For, 'tis a question left us yet to prove, 
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. 


Hamlet. 


jj 


2 


„ —AFFLICTION 


Prosperity is the very bond of love ; 

Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together 

Affliction alters. 


Hunter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


JJ JJ 


I think, affliction may subdue the cheek, 
But not take in the mind. 


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>j 


j> 


PROXY— DANGER 


All hearts in love use their own tongues ; 
Let every eye negotiate for itself, 
And trust no agent : for beauty is a witch, 
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


ii. 


i 


QUARREL 


This crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was 
before. 


Othello. 


>j 


3 


RHAPSODIES 


What light through yonder window breaks ? 
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! 


Romeo and 
jfuliet. 


jj 


2 


» 


It is my lady ; O, it is my love. 
O, that she knew she were ! — 


j> jj 


jj 


j> 


„ 


See how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! 
O, that I were a glove upon that hand, 
That I might touch that cheek ! 


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jj 


jj 


„ 


O, for a falconer's voice, 
To lure this tassel-gentle back again ! 
Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud ; 
Else would I tear the cave where echo lies, 
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine 
With repetition of my Romeo. 


jj jj 


jj 


jj 


» 


O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art 
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, 
As is a winged messenger of heaven 
Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes 
Of mortals, that fall back to gaze on him, 
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds, 
And sails upon the bosom of the air. 


jj jj 


jj 


jj 


,, 


My true love is grown to such excess, 
I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth. 


JJ JJ 


n. 


6 


,, 


One fairer than my love ! the all-seeing sun 
Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun. 


» J> 


i. 


2 


>> 


When he shall die, 
Take him, and cut him out in little stars, 
And he will make the face of heaven so fine, 
That all the world will be in love with night, 
And pay no worship to the garish sun. — 


JJ JJ 


in. 


jj 


,, 


I must hear from thee every day i' the hour, 
For in a minute there are many days : 


JJ JJ 


>j 


5 


>} 


Mine own self's better part ; 
Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart ; 
My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, 
My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.] 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


>j 


2 


, 


Hang there like fruit, my soul, 
Till the tree die ! 


Cymheline. 


V. 


5 



122 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


RHAPSODIES 


So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not 
To those fresh morning drops upon the rose, 

As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote 
The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows : 

Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright 
Through the transparent bosom of the deep, 

As doth thy face through tears of mine give light ; 


Love' s Labour'' s 








Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep : 


Lost. 


IV. 


3 


,j 


Celestial as thou art, do not love that wrong, 


Passionate Pil- 








To sing the heavens' praise with such an earthly tongue. 


grim. 


verse 


9 


ty 


What you do, 
Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, 
I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, 
I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; 
Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, 
To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you 
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own 
No other function : Each your doing, 
So singular in each particular, 
Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, 










That all your acts are queens. 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


,, 


I do protest, I never loved myself, 
Till now infixed I beheld myself, 










Drawn in the flattering table of her eye. 


King John* 


11. 


2 


» 


I saw her coral lips to move, 
And with her breath she did perfume the air : 


Taming of the 








Sacred, and sweet, was all I saw in her. 


Shrew. 


1. 


1 


>, ... 


You seem to me as Dian in her orb ; 


Much Ado 








As chaste as is the bud, ere it be blown ; 


About Nothing. 


IV. 


11 


REASON 


Love's reason's without reason. 


Cymbeline. 


11 


2 


■,■, 


To be wise and love, 


Troilus and 








Exceeds man's might; 


Cressida. 


III. 


11 


>t 


Past cure I am, now reason is past care, 
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest ; 

My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, 
At random from the truth vainly express'd ; 

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, 

Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. 


Sojmet 147. 






>> ... 


My love is as a fever, longing still, 

For that which longer nurseth the disease, 
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, 

The uncertain sickly appetite to please. 
My reason, the physician to my love, 

Angry that his prescriptions are not kept. 
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve, 

Desire is death, which physic did except. 


)5 11 






» 


Reason and love keep little company together now-a- 
days : The more the pity, that some honest neighbour will 


Midsummer 








not make them friends. 


Night's Dream. 


III. 


1 


tt ••• 


The will of man is by his reason sway'd : 










And reason says you are the worthier maid. 


11 it 


II. 


2 


fi 


Things growing are not ripe until their season ; 
So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason ; 
And touching now the point of human skill, 
Reason becomes the marshal to my will, 


■ 







133 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE— (Continued) . 


PLAT OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


REASON 


And leads me to your eyes ; where I o'erlook 


Midsummer 








Love's stories, written in love's richest book. 


Night's Dream 


II. 


2 


»» 


Wisdom and blood combating in so tender a body, we 


Much Ado 








have ten proofs to one, that blood hath the victory. 


About Nothing. 


55 


3 


RELIGION 


Religious love put out religion's eye : 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






RENEWAL 


Now thy image doth appear 
In the rare semblance that I loved it first. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


V. 


1 


SEALS 


Bless'd be, 
You bees, that make these locks of counsel ! Lovers, 
And men in dangerous bonds, pray not alike ; 
Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet 










You clasp young Cupid's tables. — 


Cymbeline. 


III. 


2 


SCORN 


Scorn at first makes after-love the more. 


Tico Gentlemen 










of Verona. 


55 


1 


SECOND 


At first I did adore a twinkling star, 










But now I worship a celestial sun. 


55 55 


II. 


6 


n 


Love bade me swear, and love bids me forswear : 
O sweet-suggesting love, if thou hast sinn'd, 










Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it. 


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55 


55 


» ••• 


Even as one heat another heat expels, 

Or as one nail by strength drives out another, 

So the remembrance of my former love 










Is by a newer object quite forgotten. 


55 55 


55 


55 


,, 


And he wants wit, that wants resolved will 










To learn his wit to change the bad for better. — 


55 55 


55 


55 


11 


One fire burns out another's burning, 


Romeo and 








One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish : 


Juliet. 


I. 


2 


11 


Take thou some new infection to thy eye, 










And the rank poison of the old will die. 


55 55 


55 


55 


,, 


Ruin'd love, when it is built anew, 

Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater ; 


Sonnet 119. 






SENSITIVE 


Love's feeling is more soft and sensible 


Love's Labour's 








Than are the tender horns of cockled snails ; 


Lost. 


IV. 


3 


SIGHT— LOVERS... 


The sight of lovers feedeth those in love: 


As You Like It. 


III. 


4 


SIGNS 


If he be not in love with some woman, there is no 


Much Ado 








believing old signs : 


about Nothing. 


55 


2 


» 


To wreath your arms like a malcontent ; to relish a 
love-song, like a robin-redbreast ; to walk alone, like one 
that hath the pestilence ; to sigh, like a schoolboy that 
had lost his A, B, C ; to weep, like a young wench that 
had buried her grandam ; to fast, like one that takes diet ; 










to watch, like one that fears robbing ; to speak puling, like 
a beggar at Hallowmas. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


II. 


1 


SHOWING 


They do not love, that do not shew their love. 


55 55 


I. 


2 


SILENCE 


His little speaking shews his love but small. 


5J 55 


55 


55 


55 


O, they love least, that let men know their love. 


55 55 


>> 


55 


55 ••■ • • • 


What ! gone without a word ! 
Ay, so true love should do ; it cannot speak ; 










For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. 


55 55 


II. 


>» 


11 


There's beggar}- in the love that can be reckon'd. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


I. 


I 



124 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


SILENCE 


Love, and tongue-tied simplicity, 
In least, speak most, to my capacity. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


V. 


I 


»j 


They are but beggars that can count their worth ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


6 


tt ••• 


That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming 
The owner's tongue doth publish every where. 


Sonnet 102. 






SMILES— FROWNS 


For looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth : 
A smile recures the wounding of a frown ; 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






SOUGHT— UN- 
SOUGHT 


Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 


TwelfthNight. 


III. 


1 


STRIVING 


Who ever strove 
To show her merit, that did miss her love ? 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


I. 


jj 


SUFFERING 


Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst 
shame ; 
And sweetens in the suffering pangs it bears, 
The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears. 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






SURFEITING 


The sweetest honey 
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, 
And in the taste confounds the appetite : 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


6 


SYMPATHY 


How sweetly do you minister to love, 
That know love's grief by his complexion ! 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


I. 


1 


TALES 


Copious stories, oftentimes begun, 
End without audience, and are never done. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






THOUGHTS 


I cannot speak 
So well, nothing so well ; no, nor mean better ; 
By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out 
The purity of his. 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


jj ... 


Love-thoughts lie rich, when canopied with bowers. 


Twelfth Night. 


I. 


1 


jj 


spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! 
That, notwithstanding thy capacity 
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, 
Of what validity and pitch soever, 
But falls into abatement and low price, 
Even in a minute ! so full of shapes is fancy, 
That it alone is high-fantastical. 


jj jj 


JJ 


jj 


TIME 


There lives within the very flame of love 
A kind of wick or snuff, that will abate it ; 
And nothing is at a like goodness still ; 
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, 
Dies in his own too much : 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


7 


,j ... 


Love is begun by time ; 
And that I see, in passages of proof, 
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. 


jj 


JJ 


jj 


), 


Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 
Within his bending sickle's compass come ; 

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 

If this be error, and upon me proved, 

I never writ, nor no man ever loved. 


Sonnet 1 19. 






,, 


So that eternal love in love's fresh case 
Weigh not the dust and injury of age, 
Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place, 

But makes antiquity for aye his page ; 
Finding the first conceit of love there bred, 
Where time and outward form would shew it dead. 


„ 108. 







125 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued) . 


PLAT OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


TIME 


It was builded far from accident ; 

It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls 
Under the blow of thralled discontent, 

Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls : 
It fears not policy, that heretic, 

Which works on leases of short number'd hours, 
But all alone stands hugely politic, 


Son?iet 124. 






TOO LATE 


Time goes on crutches, till love hath all his rites. 

Love, that comes too late, 
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, 
To the great sender turns a sour offence, 
Crying, that's good that's gone : 


Much Ado 
About Nothmg. 

All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


II. 
V. 


I 

3 


TRANSIENT 


O happiness enjoy'd but of a few ! 

And, if possess'd, as soon decay'd and done 
As is the morning's silver-melting dew 

Against the golden splendour of the sun ! 

An expir'd date, cancel'd ere well begun : 


Tarquin. 






>) ••• 


It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud ; 
Bud and be blasted in a breathing while ; 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






,, ... 


Tell me, where is fancy bred, 
Or in the heart, or in the head ? 
How begot, how nourished ? 
It is engender'd in the eyes, 
With gazing fed ; and fancy dies 
In the cradle where it lies : 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


III. 


2 


>> ••• 


O, how this spring of love resembleth 
The uncertain glory of an April day ; 

Which now shews all the beauty of the sun, 
And by and by a cloud takes all away ! 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


I. 


3 


TRIFLING 


Alas, how love can trifle with itself ! 


>> >> 


IV. 


4 


TROUBLE 


The love that follows us, sometimes is our trouble 
Which still we thank as love. 


Macbeth. 


I. 


6 


UNALTERABLE ... 


True, inseparable, faithful loves, 
Sticking together in calamity. 


King yohn. 


III. 


4 


,, ... 


Though fortune, visible an enemy, 

Should chase us with my father : power no jot 

Hath she to change our loves. 


Winter's Tale. 


V. 


1 


,, ... 


Know, my love, as easy mayst thou fall 
A drop of water in the breaking gulf, 
And take unmingled thence that drop again, 
Without addition, or diminishing, 
As take from me thyself, and not me too. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


II. 


2 


,, . 


He that parts us, shall bring a brand from Heaven, 
And fire us hence, like foxes. 


King Lear. 


V. 


3 


,, 


A true soul, 
When most impeach'd stands least in thy control. 


Sonnet 125. 






,, 


Love is not love, 
Which alters when it alteration finds ; 

Or bends, with the remover to remove : 
O no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, 

That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; 
It is the star to every wandering bark, 

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 


„ 116. 






UNKINDNESS ... 


Unkindness may do much ; 
And his unkindness may defeat my life, 
But never taint my love. 


Othello. 


IV. 


2 



126 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVE — (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


VOWING 


I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow ; 

By his best arrow with the golden head ; 

By the simplicity of Venus' doves ; 

By that which knitteth souls, and prospers loves ; 

.And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, 

When the false Trojan under sail was seen ; 

By all the vows that ever men have broke, 

In number more than ever women spoke ; — 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


I. 


I 


VOWS 


Love takes the meaning, in love's conference. 
I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit; 
So that but one heart we can make of it : 
Two bosoms interchained with an oath ; 
So, then, two bosoms, and a single troth. 


it if 


II. 


3 


WANING— CERE- 
MONEY 


Ever note, 
When love begins to sicken and decay, 
It useth an enforced ceremony. 


Julius Cossar. 


IV. 


2 


WAYWARD 


Fie, fie ! how wayward is this foolish love, 
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, 
And presently, all humble, kiss the rod ! 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


I. 


>> 


WICKED— MEN ... 


They say, base men, being in love, have then a nobility 
in their natures more than is native to them, — 


Othello. 


11. 


I 


WOMEN— AGE ... 


Then let thy love be younger than thyself, 
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent : 
For women are as roses, whose fair flower, 
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 


Twelfth Night. 


>> 


4 


—MEN ... 


There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in 
man's commendation with woman, than report of valour. 


»> >> 


III. 


2 


>> >» 


I never knew a woman love man so. 


Othello. 


IV. 


I 


„ —TEARS 


Women's fear and love hold quantity ; 
In neither aught, or in extremity. 


Hamlet. 


III. 


2 


„ —WOOING 


That she was never, yet, that ever knew 
Love go so sweet, as when desire did sue : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


I. 


>> 


YOUTH 


A fashion, and a toy in blood ; 
A violet in the youth of primy nature, 
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, 
The perfume and suppliance of a minute : 
No more. 


Hamlet. 


>J 


3 


j, 


As the most forward bud 
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, 
Even so by love the young and tender wit 
Is turned to folly ; blasting in the bud, 
Losing his verdure even in the prime, 
And all the fair effects of future hopes. 


Ttvo Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


>> 


i 


,, 


Briefly die their joys, 
That place them on the truth of girls and boys. — 


Cymbeline. 


V. 


5 


,, ... ... 


Welcomes the warm approach of sweet desire. 

Young men's love then lies 
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


3 


/ 


LOVERS. 




ABSENCE— TIME... 


Lovers' absent hours, 
More tedious than the dial eight score times. 
O weary reckoning ! 


Othello. 


III. 


4 



127 













CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVERS — (Continued). PLA y or poem. act. sc. 


AGE— BEAUTY ... 


The older I wax, the better I shall appear ; my comfort 
is, that old age, that ill-layer up of beauty, can do no 
more spoil upon my face ; thou hast me, if thou hast me, 
at the worst : 


Henry V. 


v. 


2 


APPOINTMENTS... 


Lovers break not hours, 
Unless it be to come before their time, 
So much they spur their expedition. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


a 


' 


,, 


For lovers ever run before the clock. 


Merchant of 




,, 


He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts, and 
break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in 
the affairs of love, it may be said of him, that Cupid hath 
clapp'd him o' the shoulder ; but I warrant him heart- 
whole. 


Venice. 
As You Like It. 


11. 

IV. 


6 
1 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


As true a lover 
As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow. 


» >> 


11. 


4 


>> » 


If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by vaulting into 
my saddle with my armour on my back, under the cor- 
rection of bragging be it spoken, I should quickly leap 
into a wife. Or, if I might buffet for my love, or bound 
my horse for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher, 
and sit like a jackanapes, never off ; but, before God, I 
cannot look greenly, nor gasp out my eloquence ; nor I 
have no cunning in protestation ; only downright oaths, 
which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging. 


Henry V. 


v. 


2 


» >> 


Green, indeed, is the colour of lovers : 


Love's Labour's 






>> >> 


All true lovers are 
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, 
Save in the constant image of the creature 
That is beloved. — 


Lost. 
Twelfth Night. 


1. 

11. 




DISMISSAL 


I would have thee gone : 
And yet no further than a wanton's bird ; 
Who lets it hop a little from her hand, 
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, 
And with a silk thread plucks it back again, 
So loving-jealous of his liberty. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


»> 


2 


EAR 


A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, 
When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd ; 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


3 


EYES 


A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; 


>> »i 


j> 


>> 


FALSE 


Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them with his 
comfort ; swallowed his vows whole, pretending in her dis- 
coveries of dishonour: in few, bestowed her on her own 
lamentation, which she yet wears for his sake ; and he, a 
marble to her tears, is washed with them, but relents not. 


Measure fen- 
Measure. 


in. 


1 


„ 


Take, oh take those lips away, 
That so sweetly were forsworn ; 

And those eyes, the break of day, 
Lights that do mislead the morn : 


>> tf 


IV. 


jj 


FLATTERY 


Having neither the voice nor the heart of flattery about 
me, I cannot so conjure up the spiiit of love in her, that he 
will appear in his true likeness. 


Henry V. 


V. 


2 


,, ... 


I love to hear her speak, — yet well I know 
That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 

I grant I never saw a goddess go, — 

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground : 

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare 

As any she, belied with false compare. 


Sonnet 130. 







128 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LOVERS— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



FLIRTS ... 

FOLLY 
HOPE 

„ —FEARS 



IMAGINATION 



IMPEDIMENTS 

JOURNEYS 

KISSES 

NIGHT 
OATHS 



PARTINGS. 



PERJURY 



Many a wooer doth commence his suit 
To her^he thinks not worthy ; yet he wooes ; 
Yet will he swear, he loves. 

True lovers, run into strange capers ; but as all is 
mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. 

Hope is a lover's staff : 

These lovers cry — Oh ! oh ! they die ! 

Yet that, which seems the wound to kill, 
Doth turn oh ! oh ! to ha ! ha ! he ! 

So dying love lives still : 
Oh I oh ! a while, but ha ! hal ha ! 
Oh I oh ! groans out for ha ! ha ! ha ! 

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 

Are of imagination all compact : 

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — 

That is, the madman ; the lover, all as frantic, 

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt ; 

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
More than cool reason ever comprehends. 

A lover may bestride the gossamers, 
That idle in the wanton summer air, 
And yet not fall : so light is vanity. 

Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover ; 

What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck'd: 

Journeys end in lovers' meeting, 

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; 
and for lovers, lacking (God warn us I) matter, the 
cleanliest shift is to kiss. 

Lovers can see to do their amorous rites 
By their own beauties, or, if love be blind, 
It best agrees withjnight. 

The oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a 
tapster ; they are both the confirmers of false reckonings : 

'Tis not the many oaths'that make the truth ; 
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. 

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, 
and yet reserve an ability that they never perform ; vowing 
more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than 
the tenth part of one. 

Alas 1 this parting strikes poor lovers dumb. 

Parting is such sweet sorrow, 
That I shall say — good night, till it be morrow. 

At lovers' perjuries, 
They say, Jove laughs. 

Do not call it sin in me, 

That I am forsworn for thee ; 

Thou, for whom even Jove would swear, 

Juno but an Ethiop were : 

And deny himself for Jove, 

Turning mortal for thy love. — 



Much Ado 
About Nothing. 

As You Like It. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona, 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Love 1 s Labour 1 's 
Lost. 



v. 



ii. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

Twelfth Night, 



As You Like It, 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

As You Like It. 

AW s Well That 
Ends Well. iv. 



ii. 



in. 



IV, 



m. 



in. 



ii. 



IV. 



3 
4 



129 



CLASSIFICATION. 


LOVERS— (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


POETRY 


The lover, 
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad, 
Made to his mistress' eye-brow : 


.4s You Like It. 


11. 


7 


., ... ... 


Lovers are given to poetry ; 


» » 


in. 


3 


n 


The truest poetry is the most feigning ; and lovers are 
given to poetry ; and what they swear in poetry, may be 
said, as lovers, they do feign. 


>> >» 


>> 


>> 


,, 


These fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme them- 
selves into ladies' favours, — they do always reason them- 
selves out again. 


Henry V. 


v. 


2 


SIGHT— SYMPA- 
THY 


The sight of lovers feedeth those in love : — 


As You Like It. 


in. 


4 


SIGNS 


A lean cheek which you have not ; a blue eye, and 
sunken, which you have not ; an unquestionable spirit, 
which you have not ; a beard neglected, which you have 
not, — but I pardon you for that ; for, simply, your having 
in beard is a younger brother's revenue. — Then your hose 
should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve 
unbutton'd, your shoe untied, and everything about you 
demonstrating a careless desolation. But you are no such 
man ; you are rather point-device in your accoutrements ; 
as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any other. 


>> >> 


>> 


2 


SILENCE 


Lovers say, the heart hath treble wrong, 
When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






SPRING-TIME ... 


Sweet lovers love the spring. 


As You Like It. 


v. 


3 


TIME 


Lovers' hours are long, though seeming short : 
If pleased themselves, others, they think, delight 
In such like circumstance, with such like sport : 
Their copious stories, oftentimes begun, 
End without audience, and are never done. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






VOICES— NIGHT 


How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, 
Like softest music to attending ears ! 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


2 


WAYWARD 


Would now like him, now loath him ; then entertain 
him, then forswear him ; now weep for him, then spit at 
him; that I drave my suitor from his mad humour of love, 


As You Like It. 


III. 


}> 


WOOING— COOL- 
NESS 


Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, 
But bid farewell, and go : when you sued staying, 
Then was the time for words : no going then ; — 
Eternity was in our lips, and eyes ; 
Bliss in our brows' bent ; none our parts so poor, 
But was a race of heaven : 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


[. 


3 


„ —DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


That she, beloved, knows nought, that knows not this, — 
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


>> 


2 


>> >} 


Wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scottish jig, a 
measure, and a cinque-pace : the first suit is hot and 
hasty, like a Scottish jig, and full as fantastical ; the 
wedding, mannerly-modest, as a treasure full of state and 
ancientry; and then comes repentance, and, with his bad 
legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink 
into his grave. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


II. 


I 


„ —FLIRT- 
ING 


She did shew favour to the youth in your sight, only to 
exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to put 
fire in your heart, and brimstone in your liver. 


Twelfth Night. 


[II. 


2 


„ —INTEN- 
TION 


If that thy bent of love be honourable, 
Thy purpose marriage, send me word. . . . 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


>> 






130 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LOVERS— CContinued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



WOOING— OPPOR- 
TUNITY 



-POETRY 



-SCORN 
-TARDY 
-TEMPER 
-TIMES— 



„ — WON— 
QUICKLY 



„ —WOMAN 
WOOER ... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



FOOLS— FOLLY .. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



The double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash 
off, and you are now sailed into the north of my lady's 
opinion ; where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutch- 
man's beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable 
attempt, either of valour or policy. 

! never will I trust to speeches penn'd, 

Nor to the motion of a school -boy's tongue ; 
Nor never come in visor to my friend, 

Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song; 
Taffata phrases, silken terms precise, 

Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, 
Figures pedantical ; these summer-flies 

Have blown me full of maggot ostentation : 

Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd 
In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes : 

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo 
in festival terms. 

Why should you think, that I should woo in scorn ? 
Scorn and derision never come in tears ; 

Nay, and you be so tardy, come no more in my sight : 

1 had as lief be woo'd of a snail. 

Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? 
Was ever woman in this humour won ? 

Times of wo afford no time to woo : 



If thou think' st I am too quickly won, 
I'll frown and be perverse, and say thee nay, 
So thou wilt woo ; 

If she confess, that she was half the wooer, 
Destruction on my head, if my bad blame 
Light on the man ! — 



LOYALTY. 

A jewel in a ten-times -barr'd-up chest 
Is — a bold spirit in a loyal breast. 

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make 
Our faith mere folly : 



LUST. 

Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust ; 
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight ; 

Past reason haunted ; and, no sooner had, 
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, 

On purpose laid to make the taker mad : 
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so ; 

Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme ; 
A bliss in proof, — and proved, a very wo ; 

Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream : 
All this the world well knows ; yet none knows well 
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. 



Twelfth Night. 



Love 's Labour' 's 
Lost. 



Much Ado 
About Nothing. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream 

As You Like It. 

Richard III. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Othello. 



Richard II. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Sonnet 129. 



in. 



in. 



IV. 



in. 



11. 



in. 



11 



131 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LUST — (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 


The cloy'd will, 
(That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, 
That tub both filled and running,) ravening first 










The lamb, longs after for the garbage. 


Cymleline. 


I. 


7 


» » 


Our natures do pursue, 
(Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) 


Measure for 








A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. 


Measure. 


» 


3 


„ —LIBERTIES 


Is whispering nothing ? 
Is leaning cheek to cheek ? is meeting noses ? 
Kissing with inside lip ? stopping the career 
Of laughter with a sigh ? (a note infallible 
Of breaking honesty :) horsing foot on foot ? 
Skulking in corners ? wishing clocks more swift ? 
Hours, minutes ? noon, midnight ? and all eyes blind 
With the pin and web, but theirs, theirs only 
That would unseen be wicked ? is this nothing ? 










Why, then the world, and all that's in 't, is nothing ; 


Winter's Tale. 


ii 


2 


FEAR ... ... 


Honest Fear, bewitch'd with lust's foul charm, 
Doth too too oft betake him to retire, 
Beaten away by brain-sick rude Desire. 


Tarquin. 






LIBERTIES 


When these mutualities so marshal the way, hard at 
hand comes the master and main exercise, the incorporate 










conclusion : 


Othello. 


ii. 


I 


LIGHT 


Light and lust are deadly enemies : 


Tarquin. 






LOVE 


Love to heaven is fled, 

Since sweating Lust on earth usurp'd his name ; 
Under whose simple semblance he hath fed 

Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame ; 
Which the hot tyrant stains, and soon bereaves, 
As caterpillars do the tender leaves. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






»i ••• »•• 


Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain, 
But lust's effect is tempest after sun ; 

Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, 
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done. 

Love surfeits not ; lust like a glutton dies : 

Love is all truth ; lust full of forged lies. 


n ii 






NATURE 


Blood thou still art blood : 
Let's write good angel on the devil's horn, 


Measure for 








'Tis not the devil's crest. — 


Measure. 


ii 


4 


OLD— YOUNG ... 


Rebellious hell, 
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, 
To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, 
And melt in her own fire : proclaim no shame, 
When the compulsive ardour gives the charge ; 
Since frost itself as actively doth burn, 










And reason panders will. 


Hamlet. 


in. 


3 


)> s> 


The blood of youth burns not with such excess, 


Love's Labour'* 's 








As gravity's revolt to wantonness. 


Lost. 


v. 


2 


REASON 


appetite, from judgment stand aloof ! 
The one a palate hath that needs, will taste, 
Though reason weep, and cry — it is thy last. 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






SEDUCTION 


This momentary joy breeds months of pain ; 

This hot desire converts to cold disdain : 
Pure chastity is rifled of her store, 
And lust, the thief, far poorer than before. 


Tarquin. 







*33 



CLASSIFICATION. 



LUST— ( Con tinned) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



SLAVERY— MAN 



VIRTUE ... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



„ —DEPLORING 



„ —DESIRING 



DISCLAIMING 

FEVER 

GREAT MEN 
LETTERS ... 

LOVE 



Give me that man, 
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, 

But virtue, as it never will be moved, 
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven ; 
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, 
Will sate itself in a celestial bed, 
And prey on garbage. 

Can it be, 
That modesty may more betray our sense 
Than woman's lightness ? Having waste ground enough, 
Shall we desire to raise the sanctuary, 
And pitch our evils there ? 



Hamlet. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



MADNESS (madmen). 

Why, this is very midsummer madness. 

He's mad, that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's 
health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath. 

This is mere madness : 
And thus a while the fit will work on him ; 
Anon, as patient as the female dove, 
When that her golden couplets are disclosed, 
His silence will sit drooping. 

O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! 
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : 
The expectancy and rose of the fair state, 
The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, 
The observed of all observers ! quite, quite down ! 

That noble and most sovereign reason, 
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; — 
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth, 
Blasted with ecstasy : 

Preach some philosophy to make me mad, 
And thou shalt be canonized, .... 
For, being not mad, but sensible of grief, 
My reasonable part produces reason 
How I may be deliver'd of these woes, 
And teaches me to kill or hang myself : 

I am not mad, — I would to heaven, I were 1 
For then, 'tis like I should forget myself : 

I am not mad, too well, too well I feel 
The different plague of each calamity. 

What's a fever but a fit of madness . . . ? 

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go . . . 

A madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills not 
much when they are delivered. 

No settled senses of the world can match 
The pleasure of that madness. 

Love is merely a madness ; and, I tell you, deserves as 
well a dark house and a whip, as madmen do : and the 
reason why they are not so punished and cured, is, that 
the lunacy is so ordinary, that the whippers are in love 
too: 



TwAfth Night 
King Lear. 



in. 



Hamlet. 



King John. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 

Hamlet. 



Twelfth Night 
Winter's Tale. 



ii. 



in. 



in. 



v. 
n. 

V. 



As You Like It. 



in. 



4 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



MADNESS— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



LOVERS 



—POETS 



MELANCHOLY 



METHOD 

MOON 



ACTORS— LIFE 



DEVELOPMENT- 
MIND ... 



EQUALITY— DIS- 
TINCTION 



Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
More than cool reason ever comprehends. 

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 
Are of imagination all compact : 

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy, 



Though this be madness, yet there's method in it. 

It is the very error of the moon : 
She comes more near the earth than she was wont ; 
And makes men mad. 



MAN (mankind). 



All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players : 
They have their exits, and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts. 

Last scene of all, 
That ends this strange eventful history, 
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. 

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 
A stage where every man must play a part, 
And mine a sad one. 

Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, 
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 
And then is heard no more : it is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing. 

Nature, crescent, does not grow alone 
In thews, and bulk; but as this temple waxes, 
The inward service of the mind and soul 
Grows wide withal. 

Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; 
As hounds, and grey-hounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are cleped 
All by the name of dogs ; the valued file 
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, 
The house-keeper, the hunter, every one 
According to the gift which bounteous nature 
Hath in him closed ; whereby he does receive 
Particular addition from the bill 
That writes them all alike : and so of men. 

Are we not brothers ? 

So man and man should be ; 
But clay and clay differs in dignity, 
Whose dust is both alike. 

Though mean and mighty, rotting 
Together, have one dust ; yet reverence 
(That angel of the world) doth make distinction 
Of place 'tween high and low. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Hamlet. 



Othello. 



Induction, 
2 

in. 



v. 



As You Like It. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Macbeth. 



Hamlet. 



ii. 



i. 



Macbeth. 



Cymbeline. 



m. 



IV. 



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j 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MAN — (Continued). 



PLAY OE POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



EQUALITY— DIS- 
TINCTION 



FREEWILL 



FRAILTY 



IGNORANCE- 
ACTIONS 

LIFE— SENSUAL 



LUST— LAUGH- 
TER 

NOBLENESS 



OPPORTUNITY- 
FORTUNE 



PITIABLE— CON- 
DITION ... 



Strange is it, that our bloods 
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, 
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off 
In differences so mighty . . . 

Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, 
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the 
same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the 
same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and 
cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? 

'Tis in ourselves, that we are thus, or thus. Our 
bodies are our gardens ; to the which, our wills are gar- 
deners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set 
hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of 
herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril 
with idleness, or manured with industry : why, the power 
and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. 

We all are men, 
In our own natures frail ; and capable 
Of our flesh, few are angels : 

O, what men dare do ! what men may do ! what men 
daily do ! not knowing what they do ! 

What is a man, 
If his chief good, and market of his time, 
Be but to sleep, and feed ? a beast, no more. 

Flinty mankind; whose eyes do never give, 
But through lust, and laughter. 

What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! 
how infinite in faculties ! in form, and moving, how 
express and admirable ; in action, how like an angel ! in 
apprehension, how like a god ! the beauty of the world 1 
the paragon of animals. 

There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. 

When thou art old, and rich, 
Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, 
To make thy riches pleasant. 

If thou art rich, thou art poor ; 
For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, 
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, 
And death unloads thee : 

Thou hast nor youth, nor age, 
But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, 
Dreaming on both ; for all thy blessed youth 
Becomes as aged, and doth beg the arms 
Of palsied eld ; 

Hsppy thou art not ; 
For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get ; 
And what thou hast, forget' st. 

Thou art not thyself ; 
For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains 
That issue out of dust : 

Thou art by no means valiant ; 
For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork 
Of a poor worm : 



All 's Well That 
Ends Well 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Othello. 

Henry VIII. 

Much Ado 
about Nothing. 

Hanitet. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



Hamlet. 



Julius Ccesar. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



ii. 



m. 



IV 



ii. 



IV. 



in. 



» n » 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



MAN — (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



PITIABLE— CON- 
DITION ... 



POSSESSIONS ... 



„ —DEATH 



POWER— PRIDE ... 



» ft 



REASON— USE 



VICE— AGE 
VILLAINY .. 



VIRTUES— VICES 



Friend hast thou none ; 
For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, 
The mere effusion of thy proper loins ; 
Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, 
For ending thee no sooner : 

Thy best of rest is sleep, 
And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st 
Thy death, which is no more. 

Thou art not noble ; 
For all the accommodations that thou bear'st, 
Are nursed by baseness : 

Thou art not certain ; 
For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, 
After the moon : 

No man is the lord of any thing, 
(Though in and of him there be much consisting,) 
Till he communicate his parts to others : 

Nothing can we call our own, but death ! 
And that small model of the barren earth, 
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. 

Merciful Heaven ! 

Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, 

Split's the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, 

Than the soft myrtle. — O, but man, proud man ! 

Drest in a little brief authority, 

Most ignorant of what he's most assured, 

His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, 

Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, 

As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, 

Would all themselves laugh mortal. 

Could great men thunder 
As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, 
For every pelting, petty officer, 
Would use his heaven for thunder : nothing but thunder. 

What is a man, 
If his chief good, and market of his time, 
Be but to sleep, and feed ? a beast, no more. 
Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, 
Looking before, and after, gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason 
To fust in us unused. 

A man can no more separate age and covetousness, 
than he can part young limbs and lechery : 

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous 
man : 

Every grize of fortune 
Is smooth'd by that below : the learned pate 
Ducks to the golden fool : All is oblique : 
There's nothing level in our cursed natures, 
But direct villainy. 

The evil that men do, lives after them ; 
The good is oft interred with their bones ; 

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill 
together; our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped 
them not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not 
cherished by our virtues. — 



Measure for 




Measure. 


ill. 


a tt 


tt 


tt tt 


a 


tt tt 


a 


Troilus and 




Cressida. 


a 


Richard 11. 


tt 


Measure for 




Measure. 


ii. 


a tt 


a 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


Henry lF.Pt.2. 


i. 


Henry IF.Pl.i. 


ii. 


Timon of 




Athens. 


IV. 


Julius C&sar. 


III. 


All 's Well That 




Ends Well. 


IV. 






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CLASSIFICATION. 



MAN — (Continued). 



PLAY OB POEM. ACT. SC. 



VIRTUES— VICES 



CONCEITED 



DECEIVERS- 
WOMEN 



EFFEMINATE 



FAT— LEAN 



FAULTS— BEST 

MEN 



INCONSTANT- 
WOMEN 



Within the infant rind of this small flower 

Poison hath residence, and med'cine power : 

For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; 

Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. 

Two such opposed foes encamp them still 

In man as well as herbs, grace, and rude will ; 

And, where the worser is predominant, 

Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 
We write in water. 



MAN (sex). 



There are a sort of men, whose visages 

Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond ; 

And do a wilful stillness entertain, 

With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion 

Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit ; 

As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, 

And, when I ope my lips let no dog bark ! 

If we imagine no worse of them, than they of them- 
selves, they may pass for excellent men. 

Beware of them, Diana ; their promises, enticements, 
oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are not the 
things they go under : many a maid hath been seduced by 
them ; and the misery is, example, that so terrible shews 
in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade 
succession, 

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, 

Men were deceivers ever ; 
One foot in sea, and one on shore, 
To one thing constant never : 
Then sigh not so, 
But let them go, 
And be you blythe and bonny ; 
Converting all your sounds of woe 
Into, hey nonny, nonny. 

There's no trust, 
No faith, no honesty in men ; all perjured, 
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. — 

A woman impudent and mannish grown 
Is not more, loath' d than an effeminate man 
In time of action. 

Let me have men about me that are fat ; 
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o'nights : 
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; 
He thinks too much : such men are dangerous. 

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, 
And, for the most, become much more the better 
For being a little bad : 

But men are men ; the best sometimes forget : — 

'Tis not a year or two shews us a man, 
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food ; 
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, 
They belch us. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Henry Fill. 



Merchant of 
Fenice. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 



All's Well That 
Ends Well 



n. 



IV. 



in. 



Much Ado 
About Nothing. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Julius Ccesar. 

Measure for 
Measure. 

Othello. 



ii. 



in. 



v. 

in. 



m 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MAN — (Continued) . 


PLAY OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


INCONSTANT- 
WOMEN 


However we do praise ourselves, 
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, 
Than women's are. 


Twelfth Night. 


II. 


4 


j> >> 


Were man 
But constant, he were perfect : that one error 
Fills him with faults ; makes him run through all sins. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


v. 


V 


LIKES— DISLIKES 


Some men there are, love not a gaping pig ; 
Some, that are mad, if they behold a cat ; 
And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose, 
Cannot contain their urine : For affection, 
Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood 
Of what it likes or loathes : 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


IV. 


I 


LOVERS— HUS- 
BANDS 


Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; 


As You Like It. 


>> 


jj 


5> !J 


We must think, men are not gods ; 
Nor of them look for such observances 
As fit the bridal. — 


Othello. 


III. 


4 


MERIT 


Men of merit are sought after : the undeserver may 
sleep, when the man of action is called on. 


Henry IF. Pt. 2. 


II. 


>> 


MERRY— SAD ... 


Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : 

Some, that will evermore peep through their eyes, 

And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper ; 

And other of such vinegar aspect, 

That they'll not shew their teeth in way of smile, 

Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


I. 


i 


„ —ABROAD 


Men are merriest when they are from home. 


Henry V. 


>> 


2 


OLD— LIARS 


How subject we old men are to this vice of lying ! 


Henry IF.Pt.2. 


III. 


>> 


POPULAR 


It hath been taught us from the primal state, 
That he, which is, was wish'd, until he were ; 
And the ebb'd man ne'er lov'd, till ne'er worth love, 
Comes dear'd, by being lack'd. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


I. 


4 


SILENT 


I do know of these, 
That therefore only are reputed wise, 
For saying nothing ; who, I am very sure, 
If they should speak, would almost damn those ears, 
Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


>> 


i 


TEMPER 


Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, 
Though great ones are their object. 


Othello. 


III. 


4 


»> 


Men in rage strike those that wish them best, — 


>? 


II. 


3 


TRIALS 


Let the end try the man. 


HenrylV.Pt.2. 


>> 


2 


n 


In the reproof of chance 
Lies the true proof of men : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


I. 


3 


n 


The fineness of which metal is not found 
In fortune's love : for then, the bold and coward, 
The wise and fool, the artist and unread, 
The hard and soft, seem all affined and kin : 


» » 


» 


>> 


TRUE 


What ! a speaker is but a prater ; a rhyme is but a 
ballad. A good leg will fall ; a straight back will stoop ; 
a black beard will turn white ; a curled pate will grow 
bald ; a fair face will wither ; a full eye will wax hollow ; 
but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and moon ; or rather, 
the sun, and not the moon ; for it shines bright, and never 
changes, but keeps his course truly. 


Henry V. 


V. 


2 



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CLASSIFICATION. 


MAN — (Continued) . 


PLAY Oil POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


VOWS— WOMEN... 


Men's vows are women's traitors I 


Cymbeline. 


III. 


4 


WILFUL— EXPE- 
RIENCE 


To wilful men, 
The injuries that they themselves procure, 
Must be their schoolmasters : 


King Lear. 


11. 


>> 


WOMEN— FACES 


Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, 
Poor women's faces are their own faults' books. 


Tarquin. 






„ —POWER 


When maidens sue, 
Men give like gods ; but when they weep and kneel, 
All their petitions are as freely theirs, 
As they themselves would owe them. 


Measure fur 
Measure. 


I. 


5 


„ —WOOING 


That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


III. 


I 




MAN (individually). 








AMBITIOUS— DIS- 
HONOURABLE 


He was a man 
Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking 
Himself with princes ; one, that by suggestion, 
Tied all the kingdom : simony was fair play ; 
His own opinion was his law : I' the presence 
He would say untruths ; and be ever double, 
Both in his words and meaning : 


Henry VIII. 


IV. 


2 


„ —ENVIOUS 


Full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's 
good parts, 


As You Like It. 


I. 


I 


» >» 


Such men as he be never at heart's ease, 
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves ; 
And therefore are they very dangerous. 


Julius Ccesar. 


>> 


2 


BRAVE— GENTLE 


In war was never lion raged more fierce, 
In peace was never gentle lamb more mild, 


Richard II. 


II. 


I 


>> » 


He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age ; 
doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion : 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


I. 


» 


„ —YOUNG 


And by his light, 
Did all the chivalry of England move 
To do brave acts : he was indeed, the glass 
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. 


Henry IF.Pt.2. 


II. 


3 


CARELESS 


Nothing in his life 
Became him like the leaving it : he died 
As one that had been studied in his death, 
To throw away the dearest thing he owed, 
As 'twere a careless trifle. 


Macbeth. 


I. 


4 


,, ... ... 


A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but 
as a drunken sleep ; careless, reckless, and fearless of 
what's past, present, or to come ; insensible of mortality, 
and desperately mortal. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


IV. 


2 


CHANGED— LOVE 


I have known, when there was no music with him but 
the drum and fife ; and now had he rather hear the tabor 
and the pipe : I have known, when he would have walked 
ten mile a-foot, to see a good armour ; and now will he lie 
ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. 


Much Ado 
About. Nothing. 


II. 


3 


» » 


He was wont to speak plain, and to the purpose, like an 
honest man, and a soldier ; and now is he turned ortho- 
grapher I his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so 
many strange dishes. 


>> M 


» 


»> 



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CLASSIFICATION. 


MAN — (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 


CHANGED— MIS- 
FORTUNE 


At all times alike 
Men are not still the same: 'Twas time and griefs 
That framed him thus : time, with his fairer hand, 
Offering the fortunes of his former days, 
The former man may make him : 


Timon of 
Athens. 


v. 


2 


CHARITABLE 


He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity ; 


Henry IF.Pt.2. 


IV. 


4 


CHURLISH 


I had rather be a canker in a hedge, than a rose in his 
grace ; and it better fits my blood to be disdain'd of all, 
than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any : 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


I. 


3 


,, 


I cannot hide what I am : I must be sad, when I have 
cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat, when I have 
stomach, and wait for no man's leisure ; sleep, when I am 
drowsy, and tend to no man's business ; laugh, when lam 
merry, and claw no man in his humour. 


>> >> 


ft 


>> 


CLEVER 


Nothing becomes him ill, that he would well, 


Love's Labour's 






„ —GOOD ... 


A well-accomplish'd youth. 
Of all that virtue love, for virtue loved : 
Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill ; 
For he hath wit to make an ill shape good, 
And shape to win grace though he had no wit. 


Lost. 


II. 


i 

» 


„ —HAND- 
SOME 


His qualities were beauteous as his form, 

For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free ; 

Yet, if men moved him, was he such a storm 
As oft 'twixt May and April is to see, 
When winds breathe sweet, unruly though they be : 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






>> >» 


A sweeter and lovelier gentleman, — 
Framed in the prodigality of nature, 

The spacious world cannot again afford : 


Richard III. 


I. 


2 


—MODEST 


Pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, 
audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, 
and strange without heresy. 


Love' s Labour'' s 
Lost. 


V. 


I 


COLD— HARD ... 


A man, whose blood 
Is very snow-broth ; one who never feels 
The wanton stings and motions of the sense; 
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge 
With profits of the mind, study and fast. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


I. 


5 


COWARDLY 


He wants the natural touch : for the poor wren, 
The most diminutive of birds, will fight, 
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


2 


CRUEL 


He was never, 
But where he meant to ruin, pitiful ; 


Henry VIII. 


ft 


>> 


„ —OBDURATE 


A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, 
Uncapable of pity, void and empty 
From any dram of mercy. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


>> 


I 


>> tt 


You may as well go stand upon the beach, 
And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; 
You may as well use question with the wolf, 
Why he hath made the ewe bleat, or the lamb ; 
You may as well forbid the mountain pines 
To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, 
When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven : 
You may as well do anything most hard 
As seek to soften that (than which what's harder ?) 
His Jewish heart ; 


>> >> 


>> 


>> 



140 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MAN — (Continued) . 



PLAY OB POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



ELOQUENT 


When he speaks, 
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, 
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, 






To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences ; 


Henry V. 


„ 


To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, 
He had the dialect and different skill, 


Lover's Com- 




Catching all passions in his craft of will ; 


plaint. 


ECCENTRIC 


A man, into whom nature hath so crowded humours, 
that his valour is crushed into folly, his folly, sauced with 
discretion : there is no man hath a virtue, that he hath 
not a glimpse of ; nor any man an attaint, but he carries 
some stain of it : He is melancholy without cause, and 






merry against the hair : He hath the joints of every thing ; 
but every thing so out of joint, that he is a gouty Briareus, 
many hands and no use; or purblind Argus, all eyes and 
no sight. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


GOOD 


His life was gentle ; and the elements 

So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, 






And say to all the world, This was a man ! 


Julius Caesar. 


,, 


There is a kind of character in thy life, 






That, to the observer, doth thy history 
Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings 
Are not thine own so proper, as to waste 
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 


Measure for 
Measure 


,, ... . .. 


He was a man, take him for all in all, 






I shall not look upon his like again, 


Samlet. 


GOODNATURED... 


Of a free and open nature, 






That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so ; 
And will as tenderly be led by. th' nose, 
As asses are. 


Othello. 


,, 


His good nature, 
Prizes the virtue that appears .... 
And looks not on his evils : 


t> 


GREAT 


Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, 
Like a Colossus, and we petty men 






Walk under his huge legs, and peep about 
To find ourselves dishonourable graves. 


Julius Caesar. 


» 


His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm 
Crested the world : his voice was propertied 
As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; 
But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, 






He was as rattling thunder . 


>> a 


,, ... ... 


He sits 'mongst men, like a descended god : 
He hath a kind of honour sets him off, 






More than a mortal seeming. 


Cymheline. 


>) 


When he walks, he moves like an engine, and the 
ground shrinks before his treading. He is able to pierce a 
corslet with his eye ; talks like a knell, and his hum is a 
battery. He sits in his state, as a thing made for 
Alexander. What he bids be done, is finished with his 






bidding. He wants nothing of a god but eternity, and a 
heaven to throne in. 


Coriolanus. 


„ —BRAVE 


He leads them like a thing 
Made by some other deity than nature, 
That shapes man better : and they follow him, 
Against us brats, with no less confidence, 





V. 



II. 



I. 



V. 



141 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MAN — (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


GREAT— BRAVE ... 


Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, 
Or butchers killing flies. 


Coriolanus. 


IV. 


6 


>> >> 


His nature is too noble for the world : 

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, 

Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : 

What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; 

And being angry, does forget that ever 

He heard the name of death. 


}> 


Til. 


I 


„ —FAULTY 


I must not think there are 
Evils enough to darken all his goodness : 
His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven 
More fiery by night's blackness ; hereditary, 
Rather than purchased; what he cannot change, 
Than what he chooses. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


I. 


4 


>» » 


A rarer spirit never 
Did steer humanity : but you, gods, will give us 
Some faults to make us men. 


» >> 


V. 


. 


„ —GREEDY 


Great men have reaching hands : 


Henry VI.Pt.2. 


IV. 


7 


„ —TEMPER- 
ATE 


His delights 
Were dolphin-like ; they shew'd his back above 
The element they lived in : 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


V. 


2 


„ —POPULAR 


All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights 
Are spectacled to see him : 


Coriolanus. 


II. 


, 


„ —RICH ... 


In his livery 
Walk'd crowns and crownets ; realms and islands were 
As plates dropp'd from his pocket. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


V. 


■ 


HANDSOME 


His face was as the heavens ; and therein stuck 
A sun, and moon : which kept their course, and lighted 
The little O, the earth. 


>> >> 


» 


» 


,, 


Love lack'd a dwelling, and made him her place ; 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






a 


See, what a grace was seated on this brow : 
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; 
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; 
A station like the herald Mercury 
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; 
A combination, and a form, indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To give the world assurance of a man : 


Hamlet. 


III. 


, 


„ —FASHION- 
ABLE 


The expectancy and rose of the fair state, 
The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, 
The observed of all observers ! 


>> 


>> 


I 


„ —HONOUR. 
ABLE 


The theme of honour's tongue ; 

Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant; 

Who is sweet fortune's minion, and her pride : 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


I. 


n 


„ —STRONG 


They're loving, well composed, with gifts of nature flowing, 
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise ; 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


IV. 


4 


HONOURABLE ... 


His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ; 
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate : 
His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart ; 
His heart, as far from fraud as heaven from earth. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


II. 


7 


jj ... 


He was not born to shame : 
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit ; 
For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd 
Sole monarch of the universal earth. 


Romeo and 
yuliet. 


III. 


2 



142 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MAN — (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


IMPOSTOR 


Borrows money in God's name ; the which he hath used 
so long, and never paid, that now men grow hard-hearted, 
and will lend nothing for God's sake : 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


v. 


I 


IRRESOLUTE- 
GREAT 


Ye gods, it doth amaze me, 
A man of such a feeble temper should 
So get the start of the majestic world, 
And bear the palm alone. 


Julius Ccesar. 


i. 


2 


„ AMBITIOUS 


Yet do I fear thy nature ; 
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness, 
To catch the nearest way : Thou would'st be great ; 
Art not without ambition, but without 
The illness should attend it. What thou woulds't highly, 
That woulds't thou holily ; wouldst not play false, 
Yet wouldst wrongly win ; 


Macbeth. 


i. 


5 


LEAN- 
THOUGHTFUL 


Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; 
He thinks too much : such men are dangerous. 


Julius Caesar. 


ft 


2 


„ —MISERABLE 


A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller ; 
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp -looking wretch, 
A living dead man : 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


v. 


I 


>> i> 


A mere anatomy, a mountebank, 


11 11 


ii 


ii 


LEARNED— ELO- 
QUENT 


The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker, 
To nature none more bound; his training such, 
That he may furnish and instruct great teachers, 
And never seek for aid out of himself. 


Henry VIII. 


i. 


2 


LIBERAL 


His bounty, 
There was no winter in 't, an autumn 'twas, 
That grew the more by reaping. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


V. 


ii 


„ —GENEROUS 


Not soon provok'd, nor, being provoked, soon calm'd : 
His heart and hand, both open and both free : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


IV. 


5 


n —GOOD ... 


What he has, he gives, what thinks, he shows ; 
Yet gives he not till judgment guides his bounty, 
Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath ; 


11 ii 


11 


>) 


MEAN— CHURL- 
ISH 


Of churlish disposition, 

And little recks to find the way to heaven 

By doing deeds of hospitality ; 


As You Like It. 


II. 


4 


„ —SELFISH... 


For a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple of his salva- 
tion, the inheritance of it ; and cut the entail from all re- 
mainders, and a perpetual succession for it perpetually. 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


IV. 


3 


MELANCHOLY ... 


He hears merry tales, and smiles not ; I fear, he will 
prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being 
so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


I. 


2 


MERRY 


From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he 
is all mirth ; he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow- 
string, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him : he 
hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the 
clapper ; for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


III. 


11 


» 


A merrier man, 
Within the limit of becoming mirth, 
I never spent an hour's talk withal : 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


II. 


I 


„ —WISE ... 


Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise; 
Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest. 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


III. 


2 


„ —WITTY ... 


His eye begets occasion for his wit ; 
For every object that the one doth catch, 
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; 
Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) 









H3 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MAN — (Continued) . 



PLAT OK POLM. ACT. 



SC. 



MERRY— WITTY 



PROUD— FOOLISH 



REFORMED 



RESOLUTE- 
ENERGETIC 

SELF-MADE 



SHALLOW, 



STUDIOUS 



—SULLEN 



SULLEN 



SYCOPHANTIC 



TEMPERATE- 
KIND ... 



VAIN 



Delivers in such apt and gracious words, 
That aged ears play truant at his tales, 
And younger hearings are quite ravished : 
So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 

He could not 
Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride, 
Which out of daily fortune ever taints 
The happy man; whether defect of judgment, 
To fail in the disposing of those chances 
Which he was lord of ; 

Consideration like an angel came, 

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him ; 

You shall find, his vanities forespent 
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, 
Covering discretion with a coat of folly ; 

Firm of word, 
Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue ; 

He hath deserved worthily of his country : And his 
ascent is not by such easy degrees as those, who, having 
been supple and courteous to the people, bonnetted, without 
any farther deed to heave them at all into their estimation 
and report ; 

There's in him stuff, that puts him to these ends : 
For, being not propp'd by ancestry, (whose grace 
Chalks successors their way,) nor call'd upon 
For high feats done to the crown ; neither allied 
To eminent assistants ; but, spider -like, 
Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note, 
The force of his own merit makes his way ; 
A gift that Heaven gives for him, 

Thus has he (and many more of the same breed, that, 
I know, the drossy age dotes on,) only got the tune of the 
time, and outward habit of encounter ; a kind of yeasty 
collection, which carries them through and through the 
most fond and winnowed opinions ; and do but blow 
them to their trial, the bubbles are out. 

He reads much ; 
He is a great observer, and he looks 
Quite through the deeds of men : 

he hears no music : 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 



Coriolanus. 



Henry V. 



» » 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



ii. 



Coriolanus. 



Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a sort, 
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit 
That could be moved to smile at any thing. 

That close aspect of his 
Does shew the mood of a much troubled breast ; 

When he fawns, he bites ; and, when he bites, 
His venom tooth will rankle to the death : 
Have not to do with him, beware of him ; 

Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at 
any thing which profess'd to make him rejoice : a gentle- 
man of all temperance. 

There can be no kernel in this light nut ; the soul of 
this man is his clothes : trust him not in matter of heavy 
consequence ; 



Henry Fill. 



IV. 



i. 



ii. 



IV. 



4 






ii. 



i. 



Hamlet. 



Julius C&sar. 



» » 



King John. 



Richard III. 



Measure for 
Measure. 

AIVs Well Thatl 
Ends Well. 



IV. 



ft 



in. 



ii. 



I44 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MAN — (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


so. 


WOMAN HATER... 


Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of 
beauty. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


i. 


I 


WORTHY— HUS- 
BAND 


He is 

A man worth any woman ; overbuys me 
Almost the sum he pays. 


Cymbelbie. 


»> 


2 




MANNERS. 








COURT 


Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never saw'st . 
good manners ; if thou never saw'st good manners, then 
thy manners must be wicked ; and wickedness is sin, and 
sin is damnation : Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd. 


As You Like It. 


in. 


2 


DRESS— WOMEN 


Is there no manners left among maids ? will they wear 
their plackets, where they should bear their faces ? 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


EXAMPLE— AC- 
QUAINTANCE... 

FAMILIAR v. VUL- 
GAR 


It is certain, that either wise bearing, or ignorant car- 
riage, is caught, as men take diseases, one of another : 
therefore, let men take heed of their company. 

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 


Henry IF.Pt.u 
Hamlet. 


V. 

I. 


i 
3 


GRIEF 


Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now. 


King John. 


IV. 


» 


KINGS 


Nice customs court'sy to great kings. 


Henry V. 


V. 


2 


,, 


We are the makers of manners : and the liberty that 
follows our places, stops the mouths of all find-faults. 


tt 


>> 


>> 


NEW— FASHION- 
ABLE 


New customs, 
Though they be never so ridiculous, 
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow' d. 


Henry VIII. 


I. 


3 


TOWN— COUNTRY 


Those, that are good manners at the court, are as 
ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the country is 
most mockable at the court. 


As You Like It. 


III. 


2 




MARRIAGE. 








AGE— SEXES 


Let still the woman take 
An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, 
So sways she level in her husband's heart. 


Twelfth Night. 


II. 


4 


n u 


Let thy love be younger than thyself, 
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent: 
For women are as roses, whose fair flower, 
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 


>» >> 


JJ 


V 


ANCIENT— MO- 
DERN 


The hearts, of old, gave hands ; 
But our new heraldry is — hands, not hearts. 


Othello. 


III. 


4 


BEAUTY ... 


From fairest creatures we desire increase, 
That thereby beauty's rose might never die, 

But as the riper should by time decease, 
His tender heir might bear his memory : 


Sojniet I. 






BLESSING 


God the best maker of all marriages, 
Combine your hearts in one, 


Henry V. 


V. 


2 


CELIBACY 


Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, 
To undergo such maiden pilgrimage: 
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, 
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, 
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 


I. 


T 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



M ARM AGE— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



CELIBACY... 



CIVIL v.RELIGIOUS 



CURSE 



DISCLAIMING 



EARLY 

ENFORCED— UN- 
HAPPY ... 

EXCUSE ... 



FAITHLESS 



HASTY 



HONORABLE 



ILL-MATCHED 
IMPEDIMENTS 
LAW— POLICY 

NATURE ... 
I46 



Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase ; 
Without this, folly, age, and cold decay : 

She is fast my wife, 
Save that we do the denunciation lack 
Of outward order : 

O curse of marriage, 
That we can call these delicate creatures ours, 
And not their appetites ! 

Get thee to a nunnery : why wouldst thou be a breeder 
of sinners? 

If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool ; for wise men 
know well enough, what monsters you make of them. 

To think, that man, — who knows 
By history, report, or his own proof, 
What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose 
But must be, — will his free hours languish for 
Assured bondage ? 

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with 
a piece of valiant dust ? to make an account of her life to 
a clod of wayward marl ? 

I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do 
myself the right to trust none : and the fine is (for the 
which I may go to the finer), I will live a bachelor. 

A young man, married, is a man that's marr'd : 

What is wedlock forced but a hell, 
An age of discord and continual strife ? 

When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I 
should live till I was married. — 

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of 
wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against 
marriage ; But doth not the appetite alter ? A man loves 
the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age : 

O, such a deed 
As from the body of contraction plucks 
The very soul ; and sweet religion makes 
A rhapsody of words : 

A hasty marriage seldom proveth well. 

A time, methinks, too short 
To make a world without-end bargain in : 

As a wall'd town is more worthier than a village, so is 
the forehead of a married man more honourable than the 
bare brow of a bachelor : 



Is not marriage honourable in a beggar : 

If they were but a week married, they would talk them- 
selves mad. 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds 
Admit impediments. 

Marriage is a matter of more worth, 
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship : 

She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby 
Thou shouldst print more, nor let that copy die. 



Sonnet 1 1 . 

Measure for 
Measure. 



Othello. 
Hamlet. 



Cymbeline. 



Much Ado 
about Nothing, 



All's Well That 
Ends Well. 

Henry VI.Pt. 1 , 

Much Ado 
About Nothing 



Hamlet. 

Henry VI.Pt.3 

Love's Labour's 
Lost. 



As You Like It. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Sonnet 116. 



Henry Fl.Pt.l, 



Sonnet 11. 



in. 



11. 



ii. 



11. 



111. 

IV. 



v. 



in. 



11. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MARRIAGE— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



PURPOSE ... 
REPENTANCE 



SECOND 



TIME 

UNHAPPY 

WELL-MATCHED 



WOMEN— KISSES 



GOOD 



SERVANTS 



CAUSE— SECRET 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DISCLAIMING .. 



EXPERIENCE 

EXPRESSING- 
VIEWS 



Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any 
purpose, that the world can say against it ; 

Wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scottish jig, a 
measure, and a cinque-pace : the first suit is hot and 
hasty, like a Scottish jig, and full as fantastical: the 
wedding, mannerly-modest, as a treasure full of state and 
ancientry ; and then comes repentance, and, with his bad 
legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he 
sink into his grave. 

None wed the second, but who kill'd the first. 

The instances, that second marriage move, 
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love ; 

She's not well married, that lives married long ; 

War is no strife 
To the dark house and detested wife. 

He is the half part of a blessed man, 
Left to be finished by such a she ; 
And she a fair divided excellence, 
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. 

Were kisses all the joys in bed, 
One woman would another wed. 



MASTERS (see also servants), 

There are no more such masters : I may wander 
From east to Occident, cry out for service, 
Try many, all good, serve truly, never 
Find such another master. 

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters 
Cannot be truly follow'd. 



MELANCHOLY. 

There's something in his soul, 
O'er which his melancholy sits on brood ; 

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emu- 
lation ; nor the musician's, which is fantastical ; nor the 
courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is am- 
bitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, 
which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is 
a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, 
extracted from many objects ; and, indeed, the sundry con- 
templation of my travels, in which my often rumination 
wraps me in a most humorous sadness. 

Dull-eyed melancholy. 

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? 
Sleep, when he wakes ? and creep into the jaundice 
By being peevish ? 

I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than expe- 
rience to make me sad ; 

I have of late (but, wherefore, I know not,) lost all my 
mirth, foregone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it 



Much Ado 




About Nothing. 


v. 


>> ft 


ii. 


Hamlet. 


in. 


>> 


>> 


Romeo and 




Juliet. 


IV. 


All's Well That 




Ends Well. 


11. 


King John. 


>> 


Passionate Pil- 




grim. 


verse 



Cymbeline. 
Othello. 



Hamlet. 



As You Like It. 
Pericles. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



As You Like It. iv 



IV. 



in. 



x 47 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MELANCHOLY— (Continued). 


PL AY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


EXPRESSING— 
VIEWS 


goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly 
frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this 
most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er- 
hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with 
golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a 
foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 


Hamlet. 


ii. 


2 


» » 


To me, what is this quintessence of dust ? man delights 
not me, nor woman neither ; 


tt 


>> 


>> 


INCOMPREHEN- 
SIBLE 


O melancholy ! 
Who ever yet could sound thy bottom ? find 
The ooze, to shew what coast thy sluggish crare 
Might easiliest harbour in ? — 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


>> 


MADNESS 


Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy, 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


Indue 


Hon. 

2 


MIRTH— EX- 
TREMES 


Those, that are in extremity of either, are abominable 
fellows; and betray themselves to every modern censure, 
worse than drunkards. 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


i 


MOON 


sovereign mistress of true melancholy, 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


i> 


9 


MUSIC 


I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks 
eggs: 


As You Like It. 


tt 


5 


>) ... 


I am never merry, when I hear sweet music. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


v. 


i 


NATURE 


Wherefore look'st thou sad, 
When every thing doth make a gleeful boast ? 
The birds chaunt melody on every bush ; 
The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun ; 
The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. 


Titus 

Andronicus. 


ii. 


3 


RECREATION- 
WANT 


Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, 
But moody and dull melancholy, 
(Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair;) 
And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop 
Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life ? 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


V. 


i 


REGRETTING ... 


I have not that alacrity of spirit, 

Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. 


Richard III. 


>> 


3 


WISE 


I love to cope him in these sullen fits, 
For then he's full of matter. 


As You Like It. 


II. 


i 


WOMEN— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


She pined in thought ; with a green and yellow melan- 
choly, 


Twelfth Night. 


ft 


4 




MEMORY. 




DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Memory, the warder of the brain, 


Macbeth. 


I. 


7 


HAPPY 


Praising what is lost 
Makes the remembrance dear. 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


V. 


3 


LOSS 


Like a dull actor now, 
I have forgot my part, and I am out, 
Even to a full disgrace. 


Coriolanus. 


>) 


jj 


PROMISE- RE- 
MEMBER 


Remember thee ? 

In this distracted globe. Remember thee ? 

Yea, from the table of my memory 

I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 

All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 

That youth and observation copied there; 









148 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MEMORY— (Continued). 



PLA.Y OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



PROMISE— RE- 
MEMBER 

PURPOSES 

SECRET ... 

UNHAPPY... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
—BLESSED 

„ —GODLIKE 



—KINGS 



-QUALITY 



DISCLAIMING 



GRANTING 



IMPLORING 



JUSTICE 



And thy commandment all alone shall live 
Within the book and volume of my brain, 
Unmix'd with baser matter : 

Purpose is but the slave to memory : 
Of violent birth, but poor validity : 

'Tis in my memory lock'd, 
And you yourself shall keep the key of it. 

1 cannot but remember such things were, 
That were most precious to me. — 

It presses to my memory, 
Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds : 

O, it comes o'er my memory 
As doth the raven o'er the infected house, 
Boding to all, 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow : 
Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; 
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, 
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff, 
Which weighs upon the heart ? 



MERCY. 

It is twice bless'd ; 
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 

Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? 
Draw near them then in being merciful : 
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge : 

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, 
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, 
Becomes them with one half so good a grace, 
As mercy does. 

The sceptre shews the force of temporal power, 

The attribute to awe and majesty, 

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; 

But mercy is above this sceptred sway, 

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 

'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes 
The throned monarch better than his crown ; 

The quality of mercy is not strain'd; 
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath : 

You have a vice of mercy in you, 
Which better fits a lion, than a man. 

The power that I have on you, is to spare you ; 
The malice towards you, to forgive you : 

An old man, broken with the storms of state, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye : 
Give him a little earth for charity 1 

Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — 
That in the course of justice, none of us 
Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; 
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render 
The deeds of mercy. 



Hamlet. 



Macbeth. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Othello. 



Macbeth. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Cymbeline. 



Henry VIII. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



in. 



:. 



IV. 



in. 



IV. I 



V. 



IV. 



Titus 

Ajvdronicus. i. 



ii. 



IV. 



V. 



IV. 



149 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MERCY— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



JUSTICE 



LAWFUL v. UN- 
LAWFUL 

MISTAKEN 



MURDER ... 

SIN— EMBOL- 
DENED 



-PARDONED 



BEGGARY 

CENSURE 

FORTUNE 



—HONORS 



POWER 



PRIDE 



WRONGLY— AD- 
JUSTED 

150 



It is an attribute to God himself ; 

And earthly power doth then shew likest God's 

When mercy seasons justice. 

I shew it most of all, when I shew justice ; 
For then I pity those I do not know, 
Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall ; 
And do him right, that, answering one foul wrong, 
Lives not to act another. 

All the souls that were, were forfeit once ; 
And He, that might the vantage best have took, 
Found out the remedy : How would you be, 
If He, which is the top of judgment, should 
But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; 
And mercy then will breathe within your lips, 
Like man new made. 

Ignominy in ransom and free pardon, 
Are of two houses : lawful mercy is 
Nothing akin to foul redemption. 

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so ; 
Pardon is still the nurse of second woe : 

When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended, 
That for the fault's love, is the offender friended. — 

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. 

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. 

Whereto serves mercy, 
But to confront the visage of offence ? 



MERIT. 

Behold desert a beggar born. 

Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape 
whipping ? 

Who shall go about 
To cozen fortune, and be honourable 
Without the stamp of merit ! 

Let none presume 
To wear an undeserved dignity, 

O, that estates, degrees, and offices, 

Were not derived corruptly! and that clear honour 

Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! 

How many then should cover, that stand bare? 

How many be commanded, that command ? 

How much low peasantry would then be glean'd 

From the true seed of honour ? and how much honour 

Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, 

To be new varnish 'd ? 

They well deserve to have, 
That know the strongest and surest way to get. — 

Better it is to die, better to starve, 

Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. 

The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and 
exact performer, 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



»> >> 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Timon of 
Athens. 

Hamlet. 



Sonnet 66. 

Hamlet. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



IV. 



11. 



11. 



IV. 



III. 



III. 



II. 



Richard II. 



Coriolanus. 

AlVs Well That 
Ends Well. 



in. 



11. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MIND. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



BLEMISH— NA- 
TURE 

EYES— JUDGMENT 
FREE— PAIN 

GUILTY— SLEEP 

„ —SICKNESS 
„ —MEMORY 



NOBLE 

—DROSS.. 
SICKNESS 

TROUBLED 



UNCLEAN 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



ASSUMED 

BECOMING 

CARE 

*5* 



MIND (s). 



In nature there's no blemish, but the mind ; 

Minds, sway'd by eyes, are full of turpitude. 

When the mind's free, 
The body's delicate: 

Infected minds 
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. 

More needs she the divine, than the physician. — 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; 
Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; 
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, 
Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, 
Which weighs upon the heart ? 

She bore a mind that envy could but call fair. 

A golden mind stoops not to shews of dross ; 

We are not ourselves, 
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind 
To suffer with the body. 

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd ; 
And I myself see not the bottom of it. 

The tempest in my mind 
Doth fron my senses take all feeling else, 
Save what beats there. — 

Where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, 
there commendation goes with pity, they are virtues and 
traitors too : 



MIRACLES. 

Great floods have flown 
From simple sources ; and great seas have dried, 
When miracles have by the greatest been denied. 

They say, miracles are past ; and we have our philoso- 
phical persons, to make modern and familiar things, 
supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make 
trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming know- 
ledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown 
fear. 



MIRTH. 

I am not merry ; but I do beguile 
The thing I am by seeming otherwise. — 

To be merry best becomes you ; for, out of question, 
you were born in a merry hour. 

A merry heart keeps on the windy side of care. 



Twelfth Night, m 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



King Lear. 



Macbeth. 



Twelfth Night 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



King Lear. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



King Lear. 

AlUs Well That 
Ends Well. 



Othello. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



v. 



in. 



v. 



II. 



III. 



II. 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MIRTH— (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


CARE— AGE 
DESCRIPTIVE OF 


With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; 
And let my liver rather heat with wine, 
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. 

As merry as crickets. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 

Henry IF.Pt.i. 


I. 
11. 


I 
4 


" >> 


I was born to speak all mirth, and no matter. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


» 


i 


EXPERIENCE- 
SADNESS 


I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than 
experience to make me sad ; 


As You Like It. 


>> 


5 


LIFE— LONG 


A light heart lives long. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


V. 


2 


LOSS 


I have not that alacrity of spirit, 
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. — 


Richard 111. 


>3 


3 


MELANCHOLY ... 


Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth ; 

Turn melancholy forth to funerals. 

The pale companion is not for our pomp. — ■ 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


I. 


i 


„ —EXTREMES 


Those, that are in extremity of either, are abominable 
fellows ; and betray themselves to every modern censure, 
worse than drunkards. 


As You Like It. 


II. 


5 


PAIN 


Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


v. 


2 


UNREASONABLE... 


Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, 
Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys. 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


)3 


» 


MISERY (see also misfortune). 








CIVILITY 


The thorny point 
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show 
Of smooth civility : 


As You Like It. 


It. 


7 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


For misery is trodden on by many, 
And being low, never relieved by any. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






FRIENDS 


Misery doth part 
The flux of company. 


As You Like It. 


33 


i 


INGRATITUDE ... 


Do not tempt my misery, 
Lest that it make me so unsound a man, 

As to upbraid ycu with those kindnesses 
That I have for you. 


Twelfth Night. 


III. 


4 


MIRTH- ASSUMED 


Misery makes sport to mock itself : 


Richard II. 


11. 


i 


SELF— OTHERS ... 


When we cur betters see bearing our woes, 
We scarcely think our miseries cur foes. 


King Lear. 


III. 


6 


VICISSITUDES ... 


— Nothing almost sees miracles, 
But misery ; — 


>> >> 


II. 


2 


a 


Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. 


Tempest. 


>> 


>> 




MISFORTUNE (adversity.) 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Death and destruction dog thee at the heels : 


Richard 111. 


IV. 


I 


>» n 


Lo, now my glory smear'd in dust and blood ! 
My parks, my walks, my manors that I had, 
Even now forsake me ; and of all my lands, 
Is nothing left me, but my body's length ! 


Henry FLPt.$. 


v. 


2 



1KZ 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MISFORTUNE— (Continued). ' 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, 
And thou art wedded to calamity. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


in. 


3 


>> »> 


A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


11. 


1 


>> » 


Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm 
With favour never clasp'd ; 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 


>> » 


Hapless iEgeon, whom the fates have mark'd 
To bear the extremity of dire mishap ! 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


1. 


1 


>> >> 


A most poor man made tame by fortune's blows : 


King Lear. 


IV. 


6 


„ —WORST... 


The worst is not, 
So long as we can say, This is the worst. 


>» 


If 


1 


» >> 


Who is't can say, I am at the worst ? 


>> 


>> 


» 


»> >> 


His fortunes all lie speechless, and his name 
Is at last gasp. 


Cymbeline. 


I. 


6 


>> >> 


I have sounded the very base string of humility. 


Henry lV.Pt.i. 


II. 


4 


>> >> 


Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward 
To what they were before. — 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


2 


DISGRACE 


Had it pleased Heaven 
To try me with affliction ; had he rain'd 
All kinds of sores, and shames on my bare head ; 
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips ; 
Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes ; 
I should have found in some part of my soul 
A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me 
A fixed figure, for the time of scorn 
To point his slow unmoving finger at, — 


Othello. 


» 


>> 


EFFECT 


At all times alike 
Men are not still the same : 'Twas time and griefs 
That framed him thus : time, with his fairer hand, 
Offering the fortunes of his former days, 
The former man may make him : 


Timon of 
Athens. 


V. 


>> 


FATE 


As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, — 
They kill us for their sport. 


King Lea:. 


IV. 


1 


FORTITUDE 


Affliction may subdue the cheek, 
But not take in the mind. 


Winter's Tale. 


}7 


3 


)) 


Do not please sharp fate 
To grace it with your sorrows : bid that welcome 
Which comes to punish us, and we punish it 
Seeming to bear it lightly. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


» 


12 


j) 


Let me embrace these sour adversities ; 
For wise men say, it is the wisest course. 


Henry FI.Pt.3. 


III. 


T 


» 


Yield not thy neck 
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind 
Still ride in triumph over all mischance. 


>> >> 


>> 


3 


FRIENDS— LOSS ... 


What the declined is, 
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others, 
As feel in his own fall : for men, like butterflies, 
Shew not their mealy wings, but to the summer ; 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


>> 


>> 


» » 


The great man down, you mark, his favourite flies ; 
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. 
And hitherto doth love on fortune tend : 
For who not needs, shall never lack a friend ; 
And who in want a hollow friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his enemy. 


Hamlet. 


>> 


2 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



MISFORTUNE— CContinuedJ. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



FRIENDS— LOSS ... 


When Fortune, in her shift and change of mood, 
Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependants, 
Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top, 
Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, 


Timon of 








Not one accompanying his declining foot. 


Athens. 


i. 


1 


a jj 


Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens ; 

'Tis just the fashion ; Wherefore do you look 










Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there ? 


As You Like It. 


ii. 


JJ 


» >} 


This world to me is like a lasting storm, 










Whirring me from my friends. 


Pericles. 


IV. 


>J 


GOOD MEN 


A good man's fortune may grow out at heels : 


King Lear. 


ii. 


2 


GREATNESS- 


In the reproof of chance 








CRITERION 


Lies the true proof of men : The sea being smooth, 

How many shallow bauble boats dare sail 

Upon her patient breast, making their way 

With those of nobler bulk ? 

But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage 

The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold 

The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, 

Bounding between the two moist elements, 

Like Perseus' horse : Where's then the saucy boat, 

Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now 

Co-rival'd greatness ? either to harbour fled, 


Troilus and 








Or made a toast for Neptune. 


Cressida. 


I. 


3 


» »> 


Persistive constancy in men 
The fineness of which metal is not found 
In fortune's love : for then, the bold and coward, 
The wise and fool, the artist and unread, 
The hard and soft, seem all affined and kin : 
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown, 
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan 
Puffing at all, winnows the light away : 
And what hath mass or matter, by itself 










Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled. 


i) f> 


>j 


»i 


» >> 


Valour's shew, and valour's worth, divide, 
In storms of fortune : For, in her ray and brightness, 
The herd hath more annoyance by the brize, 








• 


Than by the tiger : but when the splitting wind 
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, 
And flies fled under shade, why, then, the thing of cour- 
age, 
As roused with rage, with rage doth sympathize, 
And with an accent tuned in self-same key, 










Retorts to chiding fortune. 


}> » 


>> 


j» 


PHILOSOPHY 


Of your philosophy you make no use, 
If you give place to accidental evils. 


Julius Ccesar. 
Romeo and 


IV. 


>> 


M ••• 


Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, 


Juliet. 


III. 


>> 


REMEDIES— SELF 


Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
Which we ascribe to Heaven : the fated sky 










Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull 
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


I. 


i 


SUPERFLUITY ... 


Let the superfluous, and lust-dieted man, 
That slaves your ordinance, that will not see 
Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly ; 
So distribution should undo excess, 










And each man have enough. — 


King Lear. 


IV. 


j» 



154 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MISFORTUNE— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



USES— GOOD 






UNIVERSAL 



DESCRIPTIVE OF- 
MAIDEN... 

EXCELLENCE- 
PROOF ... 

EYES 



FALSE 



MAIDEN- 
ANSWERS 

MOCK 



VOICE 



DROSS 



FATHERS— SONS 



Sweet are the uses of adversity, 

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; 

Some falls are means the happier to arise. 

His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; 
For then, and not till then, he felt himself, 
And found the blessedness of being little : 
And to add greater honours to his age 
Than man could give him, he died, fearing God. 

Thou see'st, we are not all alone unhappy 
This wide and universal theatre 
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene 
Wherein we play in. 



MODESTY. 

A maiden never bold ; 
Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion 
Blush'd at herself ; 

It is the witness still of excellency, 

To put a strange face on his own perfection : — 

What an eye she has ! methinks it sounds a parley of 

provocation. 
An inviting eye ; and yet, methinks,' right modest. 

'Twere a concealment 
Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement ; 
To hide your doings, and to silence that, 
Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, 
Would seem but modest : 

Maids, in modesty, say No, to that 

Which they would have the proff'rer construe, Ay. 

Yon' simpering dame, 
Whose face between her forks presageth snow ; 
That minces virtue, and doth shake the head 
To hear of pleasure's name ; 
The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to't 
With a more riotous appetite. 

Soft-slow tongue, true mark of modesty. 



MONEY (see also riches). 

Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, 

nothing ; 
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : 

How quickly nature falls into revolt, 

When gold becomes her object ! 

For this, the foolish over-careful fathers 

Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with 

care 
Their bones with industry : 
For this, they have engrossed and piled up 
The canker' d heaps of strange-achieved gold ; 
For this, they have been thoughtful to invest 



.4s You Like It, 
Cymbeline. 



ii. i 

IV. 2 



Henry VIII. 



As You Like It, 



Othello. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Othello. 



Coriolanus. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona 



King Lear. 
Tarquin. 



Othello. 



ii. 



IV. 



in. 



155 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MONEY— (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


FATHERS— SONS 


Their sons with arts, and martial exercises : 

When, like the bee, culling from every flower 

The virtuous sweets ; 

Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, 

We bring it to the hive ; and, like the bees, 

Are murder'd for our pains. 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


IV. 


4 


IDOL— VILE 


All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, 
As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those 
Who worship dirty gods. 


Cymbeline. 


in. 


6 


>» » 


O, how vile an idol proves this gold ! — 


Twelfth Night. 


n 


4 


LOANS 


Neither a borrower, nor a lender be : 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 


Hamlet. 


i. 


3 


,, 


Lend less than thou owest, 


King Lear. 


11 


4 


POSSESSION- 
SHOW 


I can get no remedy against this consumption of the 
purse : borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the 
disease is incurable. — 

Have more than thou sbowest, 


HenryIV.Pt.2. 
King Lear. 


11 
I. 


2 

4 


POWER 


Much of this will make black, white ; foul, fair ; 

Wrong, right ; base, noble ; old, young ; coward, valiant. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 


n 

* 


This is it, 
That makes the wappen'd widow wed again ; 
She, whom the spital-house, and ulcerous sores 
Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices 
To the April day again. 


>> n 


n 


ii 


„ 


This yellow slave 

Will knit and break religions ; bless the accursed ; 
Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, 
And give them title, knee, and approbation, 
With senators on the bench : 


n )t 


n 


ii 


>> '" 


O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 

'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright defiler 

Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars ! 

Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate wooer, 

Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow 

That lies on Dian's lap ! thou visible god, 

That solder'st close impossibilities, 

And makest them kiss ! that speak'st with every tongue, 

To every purpose ! 


n n 


n 


ii 


,, 


See how all conditions, how all minds, 
(As well of glib and slippery creatures, as 
Of grave and austere quality,) tender down 
Their services to lord Timon: his large fortune 
Upon his good and gracious nature hanging, 
Subdues and properties to his love and tendance 
All sorts of hearts ; 


>> n 


i. 


i 


,, 


What a god's gold, 
That he is worshipp'd in a baser temple 
Than where swine feed ! 

'Tis thou that ri gg' st the bark, and plough'st the foam ; 
Settlest admired reverence in a slave : 


n n 


V. 


ii 




They say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. 

'Tis gold 
Which makes the true man kill'd, and saves the thief ; 
Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man : What 
Can it not do, and undo ? 


Merry Halves 
of Windsor. 

Cymbeline. 


II. 
11 


2 

3 



156 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MONEY— CContinued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


SAVING v. USE ... 


Foul cankering- rust the hidden treasure frets, 
But gold that's put to use, more gold begets. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






„ —AGE ... 


The thrifty hire 

Which I did store, to be my foster nurse, 
When service should in my old limbs lie lame, 
And unregarded age in corners thrown ; 


As You Like It. 


II. 


3 




MOTIVE (s). 








BAD 


If thou wert honourable, 
Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not 
For such an end thou seek'st ; as base, as strange. 


Cymbeline. 


I. 


7 


CONTRARY 


Many things, having full reference 
To one consent, may work contrariously : 
As many arrows, loosed several ways, 
Fly to one mark ; 


Henry V. 


11 


2 


GOOD— UNFOR- 
TUNATE 


We are not the first, 
Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst. 


King Lear. 


V. 


3 


)> n 


When good will is shew'd, though it come too short, 
The actor may plead pardon. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


5 




MURDER. 








CONFEDERATE ... 


Hadst not thou been by, 
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, 
Quoted, and signed, to do a deed of shame, 
This murder had not come into my mind : 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


CONSCIENCE 


'Tis safer to be that which we destroy, 
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. 


Macbeth. 


III. 


11 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


All murders passed, do stand excused in this : 
And this, so sole, and so unmatchable, 
Shall give a holiness, a purity, 
To the yet unbegotten sin of time ; 
And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest, 
Exampled by this heinous spectacle. 


King John 


IV. 


3 


» n 


This is the very top, 
The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest, 
Of murder's arms : this is the bloodiest shame, 
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, 
That ever wall-eyed wrath, or staring rage 
Presented to the tears of soft remorse. 


n 


11 


i> 


DISCOVERY 


They say, blood will have blood : 
Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; 
Augurs, and understood relations have 
By maggot-pies, and choughs, and rooks brought forth 
The secret'st man of blood. — 


Macbeth. 


III. 


4 


,, 


Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 
With most miraculous organ. 


Hamlet. 


II. 


2 


FRATRICIDE 


O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven ; 
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, 
A brother's murder ! — 


» 


III. 


3 



m 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MURDER— (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


GOOD MEN 


He hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been 
So clear in his great office, that his virtues 
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against 
The deep damnation of his taking-off : 


Macbeth. 


I. 


7 


HANDS— BLOOD... 


Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood 
Clean from my hand ? No ! this my hand will rather 
The multitudinous seas incarnardine, 
Making the green — one red. 


>» 


II. 


2 


>» >> 


Here's the smell of the blood still : all the perfumes of 
Arabia will* not sweeten this little hand. 


>> 


V. 


I 


JUSTIFYING 


Though in the trade of war I have slain men, 
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience, 
To do no contrived murder ; 


Othello. 


I. 


2 


MERCY 


Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


III. 


I 


RETRIBUTION ... 


We still have judgment here ; that we but teach 
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return 
To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice 
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice 
To our own lips. 


Macbeth. 


I. 


7 


>» 


If the assassination 
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 
With his surcease, success ; that but this blow 
Might be the be-all and the end-all here, 
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — 
We'd jump the life to come. — 


>> 


>> 


>> 


,, 


There is no sure foundation set in blood ; 
No certain life achieved by other's death. 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


SELF-DEFENCE ... 


To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust ; 
But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


III. 


5 




MUSIC. 








DEATH 


I will play the swan, 
And die in music ; — 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Like a sweet melodious bird, it sung 
Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear ! 


Titus 

Andronicus 


III. 


I 


>> >> 


That strain again — it had a dying fall : 
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south 
That breathes upon a bank of violets. 
Stealing, and giving odour. — 


Twelfth Night. 


I. 


j> 


>> >> 


The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of 
Apollo. 


Love's Labour' 's 
Lost. 


V. 


2 


DISLIKE- 
WICKEDNESS ... 


The man that hath no music in himself, 
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 
The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 
And his affections dark as Erebus. 
Let no such man be trusted. — 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


>> 


I 


FINISH 


Music at the close, 
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, 


Richard II. 


II. 


)> 


GRIEF 


In sweet music is such art, 
Killing care, and grief of heart, 
Fall asleep, or, hearing, die. 


Henry Fill. 


III. 


>> 



i 5 8 



CLASSIFICATION. 



MUSIC— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



GRIEF 



HEAVENS 



HUNTING... 



LOVE 



MADNESS 



MELANCHOLY 



NIGHT 



„ —LOVERS.. 
POWER ... 



—ANIMALS 



When griping grief the heart doth wound, 

And doleful dumps the mind oppress, 
Then music with her silver sound :— 

With speedy help doth lend redress. 

Look, how the floor of heaven 
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; 
There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, 
But in his motion like an angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims: 
Such harmony is in immortal souls ; 
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. — 

The music of the spheres : 

Never did I hear 
Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, 
The skies, the fountains, every region near 
Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard 
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. 

We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top, 
And mark the musical confusion 
Of hounds and echo in conjunction. 

It gives a very echo to the seat 
Where love is throned. 

Music, moody food 

Of us that trade in love. 

If music be the food of love, play on, 
Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, 
The appetite may sicken, and so die. — 

This music mads me, let it sound no more ; 
For, though it have holp madmen to their wits, 
In me, it seems, it will make wise men mad. 

I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks 
eggs: 



I am never merry, when I hear sweet music. 

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! 
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music 
Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, 
Like softest music to attending ears ! 

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out 
of men's bodies ? — 

Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, 
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, 
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans 
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. 

Music oft have such a charm, 
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. 

Do but note a wild and wanton herd, 
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, 
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, 
Which is the hot condition of their blood ; 
If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, 
Or any air of music touch their ears, 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 

Pericles. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Twelfth Night. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Twelfth Night 



Richard II. 



As You Like It. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



IV. 



IV. 



11. 



1. 



ii. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



'59 



CLASSIFICATION. 


MUSIC — (Continu ed) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


POWER-ANIMALS 


You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, 
Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, 
By the sweet power of music : 


MercJianfof 
Venice. 


v. 


« 


» » 


Nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, 
But music for the time doth change his nature : 


>> »> 


>> 


1 

1) 


SLEEP 


Most heavenly music ! 

It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber 

Hangs upon mine eyes : 


Pericles. 


>> 


>> 


TIME 


How sour sweet music is, 
When time is broke, and no proportion kept ! 
So is it in the music of men's lives. 


Richard IT. 


17 


5 


,, ... 


Mark, how one string, sweet husband to another, 
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering. 

Resembling sire and child and happy mother, 
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing : 

Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, 


Sonnet 8. 








NAMES. 








ASKING 

• 


I do beseech you — 
Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers — 
What is your name ? 


Tempest. 


III. 


i 


KINGS— INFLU- 
ENCE 


The king's name is a tower of strength, 


Richard III. 


V. 


3 


MOTHER- 
GRANDMOTHER 


A grandam's name is little less in love, 
Than is the doting title of^a mother ; 


jj 


IV. 


4 


PLEASING- 
OTHERS 


There was no thought of pleasing you when she was 
christen' d. 


As You Like R. 


III. 


2 


RIGHT 


We call a nettle, but a nettle ; and 
The faults of fools, but folly. 


Coriolanus. 


II. 


T 


VALUELESS 


What's in a name ? that, which we call a rose, 
By any other name would smell as sweet ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


>> 


2 




NATURE. 








ANIMALS 


Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. 


Coriolanus. 


II. 


I 


ART 


Yet nature is made better by no mean, 
But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art, 
Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art 
That nature makes. 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


3 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
POWER 


One touch of nature makes the whole world kin — 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


S) 


GIFTS 


Nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor, 
Both thanks and use. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


I. 


I 


,, 


Nature is fine in love : and, where 'tis fine, 
It sends some precious instance of itself 
After the thing it loves. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


5 



160 



CLASSIFICATION. 


NATURE— (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


HERBS— PLANTS 


The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb ; 
What is her burying grave, that is her womb : 
And from her womb children of divers kind 
We sucking on her natural bosom find ; 
Many for many virtues excellent, 
None but for some, and yet all different. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


n. 


3 


HUMAN 


What he cannot help in his nature, you account a vice 
in him. 


Coriolanus. 


I. 


i 


—BAD ... 


Not nature 
To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune, 
But by contempt of nature. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 


» tt 


There's nothing level in our cursed natures, 
But direct villany. 


>> >> 


n 


tt 


HUMAN— TEARS 


Sometimes nature will betray its folly, 
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime 
To harder bosoms ! 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


2 


>> >» 


It is our trick ; nature her custom holds, 

Let shame say what it will : when these are gone, 

The woman will be out. — 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


7 


PARENTS— CHIL- 
DREN 


O worthiness of nature ! breed of greatness ! 
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base : 
Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace. 


Cymleline. 


tt 


i 


PERFECTION 


The mightiest space in fortune nature brings 
To join like likes and kiss like native things. 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


I. 


it 


REALITY— IMAGI- 
NATION 


Nature wants stuff 
To vie strange forms with fancy ; 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


V. 


2 


SUPPRESSED 


How hard it is, to hide the sparks of nature ! 


Cymleline. 


III. 


3 




NECESSITY. 








DEMANDS 


His demand 
[Springs^not from Edward's well-meant honest love, 
But from deceit, bred by necessity : 


Henry VI.Pt.$. 


III. 


3 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


I am sworn brother, 
To grim necessity ; and he and I 
Will keep a league till death. 


Richard 11. 


V. 


i 


»> »> 


The art of our necessities is strange, 
That can make vile things precious. 


Ki?ig Lear. 


III. 


2 


SUBMISSION 


Are these things then necessities ? 
Then let us meet them like necessities : — 


Henry IF.Pt.2. 


tt 


I 


i) 


For do we must, what force will have us do.— 


Richard II. 


IV. 


jj 


VIRTUE 


Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; 
There is no virtue like necessity. 


35 3» 


I. 


3 


,, 


Make a virtue of necessity, 


Two Gentlemen 
of Ferona. 


IV. 


i 




NEWS. 




BAD— FEAR 


If you be afear'd to hear the worst, 
Then let the worst, unheard, fall on your head. 


King John. 


IV. 


2 


BEARER— BAD ... 


Though it be honest, it is never good 
To bring bad news. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


11. 


5 



161 



CLASSIFICATION. 


NEWS— (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


BEARER— BAD ... 
n n 


The nature of bad news infects the teller. 

The first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remember' d knolling a departing friend. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Henry IV.Pt.2. 


i. 
n 


2 
I 


—LOOKS 


Men judge by the complexion of the sky 
The state and inclination of the day : 
So may you by my dull and heavy eye, 
My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say. 


Richard 11. 


in. 


2 


GOOD 


Did ever raven sing so like a lark, 

That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise ? 


Titus 

Andronicus. 


a 


I 


,, 


Thy letters have transported me beyond 
This ignorant present, and I feel now 
The future in the instant. 


Macbeth. 


i. 


s 


RELATING 


Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


ii. 


11 


,, ... 


Give to a gracious message 
An host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell 
Themselves, when they be felt. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


ii 


11 


STRANGE 


This news, which is called true, is so like an old tale, 
that the verity of it is in strong suspicion. 


Winters Tale. 


V. 


2 


,, 


With news the time's with labour, and throes forth 
Each minute, some. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


III. 


7 




NIGHT. 




BEAUTIFUL— DE- 
SCRIPTIVE OF... 


In such a night, 
Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, 
And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, 
And ran dismay'd away. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


V. 


I 


n n 


— In such a night as this, 
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, 
And they did make no noise ; in such a night, 
Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, 
And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, 
Where Cressid lay that night. 


V n 


11 


11 


u if 


In such a night, 
Stood Dido with a willow in her hand 
Upon the wild sea-banks, and waved her love 
To come again to Carthage. 


a a 


11 


» 


u n 


In such a night, 
Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs, 
That did renew old vEson. 


a a 


» 


11 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day 
Is crept into the bosom of the sea ; 
And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades, 
That drag the tragic melancholy night ; 
Who with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings, 
Clip dead men's graves, and from their misty jaws 
Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air. 


Henry VI. Pt. 2. 


IV 


>> 


n a 


Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, 
His day's hot task hath ended in the west : 

The owl, night's herald, shrieks, 'tis very late ; 

The sheep are gone to fold, the birds to their nest ; 

And coal-black clouds that shadow heaven's light, 

Do summon us to part, and bid good-night. 


Venus and 
Adonis. ■ 







162 



CLASSIFICATION. 


NIGHT— (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


The cripple tardy-gaited night, like a foul and ugly 
witch, doth limp tediously away. 


Henry V. 


IV. 


Cho- 
rus 


ii » 


— Come, civil night, 
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. 


Romeo and 
Juliet . 


III. 


2 


>> ii 


Then murders, treasons, and detested sins, 

The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs, 

Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves ? 


Richard II. 


55 


ii 


» » 


'Tis now the very witching time of night : 

When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out 

Contagion to this world: 


Hamlet. 


>> 


51 


'> m 


Light thickens ; and the crow 
Makes wing to the rooky wood ; 
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse ; 
Whiles night's black agents to their prey do rouse. 


Macbeth. 


55 


51 


>i h 


The bat hath flown 
His cloister'd flight ; to black Hecate's summons, 
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, 
Hath rung night's yawning peal. 


>* 


55 


51 


>> >> 


The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day ; 
Now spurs the lated traveller apace, 
To gain the timely inn ; 


j> 


)5 


3 


II 15 


Sable Night, mother of Dread and Fear, 
Upon the world dim darkness doth display 
And in her vaulty prison stows the day. 


Tarquin. 






„ • —SIN 


— Now o'er the one half world 
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 
The curtain' d sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates 
Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, 
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, 
Whose howl 's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, 
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design 
Moves like a ghost. — 


Macleth. 


It. 


i 


ii »i 


Now stole upon the time the dead of night, 
When heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes ; 

No comfortable star did lend his light, 

No noise but owls' and wolves' death-boding cries : 
Now serves the season that they may surprise 

The silly lambs ; pure thoughts are dead and still, 

While lust and murder wake, to stain and kill. 


Tarquin. 






ii i> 


O comfort-killing night, image of hell ! 
Dim register and notary of shame ! 

Black stage for tragedies and murders fell ! 
Vast sin-concealing chaos ! nurse of blame 1 
Blind muffled bawd ! dark harbour for defame! 

Grim cave of death, whispering conspirator, 

With close-tongued treason and the ravisherl 


ii 






„ —STARLESS 


There's husbandry in heaven, 
Their candles are all out. — 


Macleth. 


11. 


i 


GRIEF— SLEEP ... 


Peaceful night, 
The tomb where grief should sleep, 


Pericles. 


[. 


2 


HAPPINESS 


blessed, blessed night ! I am afeard, 
Being in night, all this is but a dream, 
Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


51 


HEARING 


Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, 
The ear more quick of apprehension makes : 









163 



CLASSIFICATION. 



NIGHT— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



HEARING 



LOVE 



LOVERS— VOICES 



MUSIC 



REPOSE— PLEA- 
SURES ... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
FASHION 



ODD 



—LUCK 



YIELDING... 



FORSWORN 



Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, 
It pays the hearing double recompense. — 

With venomous wights she stays, 

As tediously as hell ; but flies the grasps of love, 

With wings more momentary-swift than thought. 

Lovers can see to do their amorous rites 
By their own beauties, or, if love be blind, 
It best agrees with night. — 

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, 
Like softest music to attending ears ! 

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! 
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music 
Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 

These should be hours for necessities, 
Not for delights ; times to repair our nature 
With comforting repose, and not for us 
To waste these times. — 



NOVELTY (see also fashion). 

Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, 
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile,) 
That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears ? 

There is so great a fever on goodness that the disso- 
lution of it must cure it ; novelty is only in request ; 
and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, 
as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking. 

All, with one consent, praise new-born gawds, 

Though they are made and moulded of things past ; 

And give to dust, that is a little gilt, 

More laud than gilt o'erdusted. 

The present eye praises the present object : 

New customs, 
Though they be never so ridiculous, 
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd. 



NUMBERS. 

They say there is divinity in odd numbers, 
Either in nativity, chance, or death. 

'Tis odds beyond arithmetic. 

Good luck lies in odd numbers. 

Hercules himself must yield to odds. 



OATHS (see also vows). 

If you swear by that that is not, you are not for- 
sworn : 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 

Truilus and 
Cressida. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

ft » 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Henry VIII. 



Richard II. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Henry VIII. 



Merry Wives 
of Windsor. 

Coriolanus. 

Merry Wives 
of Windsor. 

Henry VI.Pt.3 



in. 



IV. 



111. 



11. 



As You Like It. 



11. 



in. 



v. 

in. 



V. 

II. 



I. 



164 



CLASSIFICATION. 


OATH S—( Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


LEGAL 


An oath is of no moment, being not took 
Before a true and lawful magistrate, 
That hath authority over him that swears : 


Henry VI.Pl.5. 


I. 


2 


MOCKERY 


Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous, 
Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls 
That welcome wrongs ; unto bad causes swear 
Such creatures as men doubt : but do not stain 
The even virtue of our enterprise, 
Nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits, 
To think, that, or our cause, or our performance, 
Did need an oath ; 


Julius Ccesar. 


II. 


I 


,, ... ... 


What is not holy, that we swear not by, 

But take the Highest to witness : Then, pray you, tell me, 

If I should swear by Jove's great attributes, 

I love you dearly, would you believe my oaths, 

When I did love you ill ? 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


IV. 


2 


„ 


The truth thou art unsure 
To swear, swear only not to be forsworn ; 
Else, what a mockery should it be to swear ? 


King John. 


III. 


I 


)j ... ... 


For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, 
And holdfast is the only dog, 


Henry V. 


II. 


3 


»> •••■ ••• 


An idiot holds his bauble for a god, 

And keeps the oath which by that god he swears ; 


Titus 

Andronicus. 


V. 


i 


PASSION 


The strongest oaths are straw : 
To the fire i' the blood : 


Tempest. 


IV. 


>> 


SINFUL— UNBIND- 
ING... 


It is great sin, to swear unto a sin ; 
But greater sin, to keep a sinful oath. 


Henry VI.Pt.2. 


IV. 


ft 


TRUTH 


'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, 
But the plain single vow that is vow'd true. 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


V. 


»> 


WORD 


I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath ; 
Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack both : 


Pericles. 


I. 


2 




OFFENCES (see faults). 










OPINION (s). 








CIRCUMSTANCES 
—CHANGE 


Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, 
And say there is no sin, but to be rich ; 
And being rich, my virtue then shall be, 
To say, — there is no vice, but beggary : 


King John. 


II. 


2 


CONVICTION 


It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of words, 
that come with such more than impudent sauciness from 
you, can thrust me from a level consideration ; 


HenrylV.Pt.l. 


>> 


1 


» ••• 


Swear his thought over 
By each particular star in heaven, and 
By all their influences, you may as well 
Forbid the sea for to obey the moon, 
As or by oath remove, or counsel shake, 
The fabric of his folly ; whose foundation 
Is piled upon his faith, and will continue 
The standing of his body. 


Winter's Tale. 


1 I. 


2 



165 



CLASSIFICATION. 



OPINION— (Continued) . 



PLAT OH POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DANGEEOUS 


Be cured 
Of this diseased opinion, and betimes ; 
For 'tis most dangerous. 


Winter'' s Tale. 


i. 


2 


DESCEIPTIVE OF 


I have bought 
Golden opinions from all sorts of people, 


Macbeth. 


>> 


7 


DISEEGAED 


Who fears a sentence, or an old man's saw, 
Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe. 


Tarquin. 






>} ••- 


Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of 
the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? 


Much Ado 
About Nothvig. 


ii. 


3 


}} 


If a man will be beaten with brains, he shall wear 
nothing handsome about him : 


tt >> 


v. 


4 


>) 


Dost thou think, I care for a satire, or an epigram ? 


?> » 


>» 


»> 


>> 


A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my 
humour : 


>> >> 


>> 


j> 


DEESS— JUDGING 


Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan 
The outward habit by the inward man. 


Pericles. 


ii. 


2 


EXPRESSING— 
GOOD 


Why, now I see there's mettle in thee ; and even from 
this instant, do build on thee a better opinion than ever 
before. 


Othello. 


IV. 


>t 


MANY-SIDED 


A plague of opinion ! a man may wear it on both sides, 
like a leather jerkin. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


3 


PEESECUTION ...- 


If I, for my opinion bleed, 
Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, 
And keep me on the side where still I am. 


Henry Fl.Pt.i. 


II. 


4 


PUBLIC— POWER 


Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects. 


Othello. 


I. 


3 


SINGULAE v. VUL- 
GAE 


I will not choose what many men desire, 
Because I will not jump with common spirits, 
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


II. 


9 


UNALTERABLE ... 


The petty streams that pay a daily debt 

To their salt sovereign, with their fresh falls' haste, 

Add to his flow, but alter not his taste. 


Tarquin. 






UNANIMOUS- 
GOOD ... 


I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good ; 


Cymleline. 


V. 


4 


UNCERTAIN 


'Tis with my mind, 
As with the tide, swell'd up unto its height, 
That makes a still-stand, running neither way. 


Henry IF. Pt. 2. 


II. 


3 




OPPORTUNITY. 








EVIL 


The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's 
fallen out with her husband. 


Coriolanus. 


IV. 


3 


LOST 


Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offered, 
Shall never find it more. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


7 


SIN 


Thou blow'st the fire when temperance is thaw'd ; 


Tarquin. 






»> ... 


Thy secret pleasure turns to open shame, 
Thy private feasting to a public fast ; 

Thy smoothing titles to a ragged name ; 

Thy sugar'd tongue to bitter wormwood taste : 
Thy violent vanities can never last. 

How comes it then, vile Opportunity, 

Being so bad, such numbers seek for thee ? 


» 







1 66 



CLASSIFICATION. 


O PPORTUNITY— ( Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


SIN 


When wilt thou be the humble suppliant's friend, 
And bring" him where his suit may be obtained ? 

When wilt thou sort an hour great strifes to end ? 
Or free that soul which wretchedness hath chain'd ? 
Give physic to the sick, ease to the pain'd ? 

The poor, lame, blind, halt, creep, cry out for thee ; 

But they ne'er meet with Opportunity. 


Tar quin. 






v. VIRTUE 


When Truth and virtue have to do with thee, 
A thousand crosses keep them from thy aid; 

They buy thy help : but Sin ne'er gives a fee, 
He gratis comes ; and thou art well appay'd, 


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WRONGS... 


The patient dies while the physician sleeps ; 

The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds ; 
Justice is feasting while the widow weeps ; 

Advice is sporting while infection breeds ; 

Thou grant'st no time for charitable deeds : 
Wrath, envy, treason, rape, and murder's rages, 
Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages. 


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Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly night, 
Swift subtle post, carrier of grisly care : 

Eater of youth, false slave to false delight, 

Base watch of woes, sin's pack-horse, virtue's snare ; 
Thou nursest all, and murderest all that are. 


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,, 


Guilty thou art of murder and of theft ; 
Guilty of perjury and subornation ; 

Guilty of treason, forgery and shift ; 
Guilty of incest, that abomination : 
An accessary by thine inclination 

To all sins past, and all that are to come, 

From the creation to the general doom. 


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fi 


O Opportunity ! thy guilt is great : 

'Tis thou that execut'st the traitor's treason ; 

Thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get ; 
Whoever plots the sin, thou 'point'st the season ; 
'Tis thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason ; 

And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him, 

Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him. 


>t 






„ 


Thou mak'st the vestal violate her oath ; 


it 








ORDER (See also Authority). 








ANARCHY 


Where every horse bears his commanding rein, 
And may direct his course as please himself, 
As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent, 


Richard HI. 


II. 


2 


,, 


The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, 
Observe degree, priority, and place, 
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, 
Office and custom, in all line of order : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


1. 


3 


>> 


The bounded waters 
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, 
And make a sop of all this solid globe : 
Strength should be lord of imbecility, 
And the rude son should strike his father dead : 


U }} 


>i 


>> 


h 


Force should be right ; or, rather, right and wrong, 
(Between whose endless jar justice resides,) 
Should lose their names, and so should justice too. 


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f> 


» 



167 



CLASSIFICATION. 



ORNAMENT. 



PLAT OE POEM. ACT. 



SC. 





ORNAMENT (Show). 








DECEPTIVE 


Ornament is but the guiled shore 
To a most dangerous sea ; the beauteous scarf 
Veiling an Indian beauty ; in a word 
The seeming truth which cunning times put on 
To entrap the wisest. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


in. 


2 


>) 


So may the outward shows be least themselves ; 
The world is still deceived with ornament. 
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 
But, being season'd with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the show of evil? In religion, 
What damned error, but some sober brow, 
Will bless it, and approve it with a text, 
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? 
There is no vice so simple, but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 


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DISDAIN... 


A golden mind stoops not to shews of dross ; 


JJ Si 


ii. 


7 


POSSESSIONS 


Have more than thou showest, 


King Lear. 


i. 


4 


POWER— MULTI- 
TUDE 


The fool multitude, that choose by show, 
Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach ; 
Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet, 
Builds in the weather on the outward wall, 
Even in the force and road of casualty. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


ii. 


9 




PAIN. 








MIND— BODY 


The tempest in my mind 
Doth from my senses take all feeling else, 
Save what beats there. 


King Lear. 


in. 


4 


}} S) 


When the mind's free, 
The body's delicate : 


ij 


»> 


u 


i> )t 


We are not ourselves 
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind 
To suffer with the body : 


>> 


ii. 


>> 


NUMBER 


One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish ; 


Romeo and 
yuliet. 


tt 


2 


PLEASURES 


Pain pays the income of each precious thing ; 


Tarquin. 






POWER— BODY ... 


Let our finger ache, and it endues 
Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense 
Of pain : 


Othello. 


in. 


4 


TOOTHACHE- 
PHILOSOPHY ... 


There was never yet philosopher, 
That could endure the toothach patiently ; 
However they have writ the style of gods, 
And made a pish at chance and sufferance. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


v. 


i 




PATIENCE. 








COWARDICE 


That, which in mean men we entitle — patience, 
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. 


Richard II. 


i. 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


She sat like Patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. 


Twelfth Night. 


ii. 


4 



168 



CLASSIFICATION. 



PATIENCE— fContinuedJ. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



ft 


>> 


>> 


>» 


>> 


>> 



-IMPA- 
TIENCE 

-SILENCE 



GRIEF 



„ —COUNSEL 



» 



IMPATIENCE- 
PRIVILEGE 

LIFE 



PAIN 
RAGE 

WISDOM 



They can be meek, that have no other cause. 

Patience is stale, and I am weary of it. 

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. 

Thou dost look 
Like Patience, gazing on kings' graves, and smiling 
Extremity out of act. 

Patience is sottish; and impatience does 
Become a dog that's mad : 

Henceforth I'll bear 
Affliction, till it do cry out itself, 
Enough enough, and die. 

I will be the pattern of all patience, I will say nothing. 

Patience and sorrow strove 
Who should express her goodliest. You have seen 
Sunshine and rain at once ; her smiles and tears 
Were like a better day : 

He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears 
But the free comfort, which from thence he hears ; 
But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow, 
That, to pay grief, must the poor patience borrow. 

'Tis all men's office to speak patience 
To those that wring under the load of sorrow ; 
But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, 
To be so moral, when he shall endure 
The like himself : 

Men 
Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief 
Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting it, 
Their counsel turns to passion, which before 
Would give preceptial medicine to rage, 
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, 
Charm ach with air, and agony with words. 

Every one can master a grief, but he that has it. 

Impatience hath his privilege. 

Thou must be patient ; we came crying hither. 
Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, 
We wawl, and cry : — 

For there was never yet philosopher, 
That could endure the toothach patiently ; 

I do oppose 
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd 
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, 
The very tyranny and rage of his. 

The robb'd, that smiles, steals something from the thief, 

What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, 
Patience her injury a mockery makes. 

How poor are they, that have not patience ! — 
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees ? 

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs 
tarry the grinding. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 

Richard II. 

Henry V. 

Pericles. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

King Lear. 



Othello. 



Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



King yohn. 



King Lear. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 

Othello. 



II. 
v. 
ii. 

V. 
IV. 



III. 



IV. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



v. 



in. 

IV. 



V. 



IV. 

I. 



II. 



169 



CLASSIFICATION. 



PATRIOTISM. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



» 



HONOR— DEATH 



DANGER 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 
170 



PATRIOTISM. 

Had you rather Caesar were living-, and die all slaves ; 
than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men ? 

Who is here so base that would be a bondman ? If any, 
speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, 
that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have 
I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his 
country ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. I 
pause for a reply. 

As Caesar loved me, I weep for him ; as he was fortu- 
nate, I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, 
as he was ambitious, I slew him : There is tears, for his 
love ; joy, for his fortune ; honour, for his valour, and 
death, for his ambition. 

As I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have 
the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my 
country to need my death. 

If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of 
Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no 
less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus 
rose against Caesar, this is my answer, — Not that I loved 
Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. 

This was the noblest Roman of them all : 
All the conspirators, save only he, 
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar ; 
He only, in a general honest thought, 
And common good to all, made one of them. 

Had I a dozen sons, — each in my love alike, and none 
less dear than thine and my good Marcius, — I had rather 
had eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously 
surfeit out of action. 

I do love 
My country's good, with a respect more tender, 
More holy and profound, than mine own life, 
My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase, 
And treasure of my loins: 

Alas, poor country ; 
Almost afraid to know itself ! It cannot 
Becall'd our mother, but our grave : where nothing, 
But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile ; 

If it be aught toward the general good, 

Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, 

And I will look on both indifferently: 



PEACE. 

The wound of peace is surety, 
Surety secure ; but modest doubt is call'd 
The beacon of the wise, the tent, that searches 
To the bottom of the worst. 

Now is the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer 



Julius Caesar. 


in. 


n >> 


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>> » 


>> 


» >> 


>> 


>> >> 


>> 


j> >> 


v. 


Coriolanus. 


1. 


» 


in. 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


Julius Caesar. 


1. 


Troilus and 




Cressida. 


11. 


Richard III. 


1. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



PEACE — (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



„— ARMISTICE 



„ —DANGER- 
OUS... 



-EVILS ... 



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„ —VICTORY 



PEACEMAKING .. 



UNIVERSAL 



WAR 



—BEHAVIOUR 



—HARDINESS 



„ —PREPARA- 
TION .. 



ARABIA 
BREATH 



Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths ; 
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; 
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, 
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. 
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front ; 
And now, — instead of mounting barbed steeds, 
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, — 
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, 
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. 

Here's a stay, 
That shakes the rotten carcass of old death 
Out of his rags I 

Thou may'st hold a serpent by the tongue, 

A chafed lion by the mortal paw, 

A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, 

Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. 

Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy ; mulled, deaf, sleepy, 
insensible ; a getter of more bastard children, than wars 
a destroyer of men. 

This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase tailors, 
and breed ballad-makers. 

A peace is of the nature of a conquest ; 
For then both parties nobly are subdued, 
And neither party loser. 

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
To silence envious tongues. 

In peace my soul shall part to heaven, 
Since I have made my friends at peace on earth. 

The time of universal peace is near: 

Prove this a prosperous day, the three nook'd world 

Shall bear the olive freely. 

I will use the olive with my sword : 
Make war breed peace ; make peace stint war ; make each 
Prescribe to other, as each other's leech. — 

In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, 
As modest stillness and humility : 
But when the blast of war blows in our ears, 
Then imitate the action of the tiger : 

Plenty, and peace, breeds cowards ; hardness ever 
Of hardiness is mother. — 

Peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, 
(Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in question,) 
But that defences, musters, preparations, 
Should be maintained, assembled, and collected, 
As were a war in expectation. 



PERFUME (s). 



All the perfumes of Arabia will not 
Sweeten this little hand. 

'Tis her breathing that perfumes the chamber thus. 

With her breath she did perfume the air ; 



Richard III. 



King John. 



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Coriolanus. 



Henry IF.Pt.2 

Henry VIII. 

Richard III. 

Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

TimoJi of 
Athens. 



Henry V. 
Cymheline. 



Henry V. 



Macbeth. 

Cymheline. 

Taming of the 
Shrew. 



n. 



in. 



IV. 



in. 



ii. 



IV. 



in. 



ii. 



V. 

II. 



171 



CLASSIFICATION. 


PERFUME— (Continued). 


PLAT OE POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


CANARY WINE ... 


That's a marvellous searching wine, and it perfumes 1 
the blood ere one can say, — What's this ? 


Henry IV.Pt.l. 


11. 


4 


CIVET 


Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten 
my imagination : 


King Lear. 


IV. 


6 


,, 


Civet is of a baser birth than tar ; the very uncleanly 
flux of a cat. 


As You Like It. 


in. 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
BAD 


A very ancient and fish-like smell ; 


Tempest. 


11. 


» 


FLOWERS 


Flowers distill'd though they with winter meet, 
Leese but their shew ; their sweetness still lives sweet. 


Sonnet 5. 






„ —ROSES 


The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, 
For that sweet odour which doth in it live. 


Sonnet 54. 






>> >> 


Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made ; 


>> 






RIVERSIDE 


A strange invisible perfume hits the sense 
Of the adjacent wharfs. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


11. 


>> 




PERJURY. 








CAUTION 


Sweet soul, take heed, 
Take heed of perjury : thou'rt on thy death-bed. 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


,, 


Take good heed, 
You charge not in your spleen a noble person, 
And spoil your nobler soul ! 


Henry VIII. 


I. 


n 


EXCUSE 


Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye 

('Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument) 

Persuade my heart to this false perjury ? 

Vows, for thee broke, deserve not punishment. 

A woman I forswore ; but, I will prove, 

Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee : 


Love's Labour' 1 s 
Lost. 


IV. 


3 


JUSTIFYING 


What fool is not so wise, 
To lose an oath to win a paradise ? 


>> >> 


» 


j> 


,, ... 


It is religion to be thus forsworn, 
For charity itself fulfils the law ; 
And who can sever love from charity ? 


»> a 


>> 


>> 


LOVERS 


At lovers' perjuries, 
They say, Jove laughs. 


Romeo a?id 
Juliet. 


II. 


2 




PERSEVERANCE. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Hercules himself must yield to odds ; 
And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. 


Henry FI.Pt.3. 


II. 


1 


„ —COUNSEL 


If you give way, 
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, 
Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, 
And leave you hindmost ; — 
Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, 
Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, 
O'errun and trampled on : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


3 



372 



CLASSIFICATION. 



PERSEVERANCE— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
COUNSEL 



INCITING 



LOVE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
LIFE— DEATH .. 



POISON- 
FLOWERS. 



PROTEST .. 



ANIMALS ... 
DESCRIPTIVE OF 



-TEARS 



DISCLAIMING 



EXPRESSING 



FOLLY 



Perseverance, dear my lord, 

Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang 

Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail 

In monumental mockery. 

Yield not thine neck 
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind 
Still ride in triumph over all mischance. 

What wax so frozen but dissolves with tempering, 
And yields at last to every light impression ? 
Things out of hope are compass'd oft with venturing, 
Chiefly in love, whose leave exceeds commission : 



PHYSIC. 

'Tis a physic 
That's bitter to sweet end. 

I consider 
By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death 
Will seize the doctor too. — 

Within the infant rind of this small flower 

Poison hath residence, and med'cine power : 

For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; 

Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. 

Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. — 

Trust not the physician ; 
His antidotes are poison, 



PITY. 

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. 

Pity, like a naked new-born babe, 

Striding the blast, or Heaven's cherubin, horsed 

Upon the sightless couriers of the air, 

Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, 

That tears shall drown the wind. — 

Wiped our eyes 
Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd : 

Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove 
A serpent that will sting thee to the heart. 

'Tis true, 'tis pity : 
And pity 'tis, 'tis true. 

A most poor man, made tame by fortune's blows : 
Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows, 
Am pregnant to good pity. 

Mine enemy's dog, 
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night 
Against my fire : 

Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd 
Ere they have done their mischief. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



in. 



Henry VI. Pt.3. „ 



Venus and 
Adonis. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Cymbeline. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Macbeth. 

Tim on of. 
Athens. 



Richard 111. 



Macbeth. 



As You Like It, 



Richard 11. 



Hamlet. 



King Lear. 



IV. 



(i. 
v. 

IV. 



ii. 



n. 



IV. 



+ 73 



CLASSIFICATION. 



VITY— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



IMPLORING 



IMPOLITIC 

LAW 
LOVE 

PROFIT ... 
TIMES— VOID 



AUDIENCE- 
VULGAR.. 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 



-BAD 



— GOOD 



INFLUENCE- 
GUILT.., 



MISUNDERSTOOD 

WRETCHEDNESS 
—DUTY 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



J 74 



If ever you have look'd on better days, 

If ever been where bells have knoll' d to church, 

If ever sat at any good man's feast, 

If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, 

And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, 

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : 

I perceive, 
Men must learn how with pity to dispense ; 
For policy sits above conscience. 

Pity is the virtue of the law, 

And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 

I pity you. 

That's a degree to love. 

Seldom, but that pity begets you a good opinion, and 
that opinion a mere profit. 

Pity's sleeping : 
Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping 1 



PLAYS (dramatic). 

Groundlings, for the most part, are capable of nothing 
but inexplicable dumb shows and noise : 

The best in this kind are but shadows : and the worst 
are no worse, if imagination amend them. 

A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, 
Which is as brief as I have known a play ; 
But by ten words, my lord, it is too long, 
Which makes it tedious : for in all the play 
There is not one word apt, one player fitted, 

This palpable gross play hath well beguiled 
The heavy gait of night. — 

An excellent play ; well digested in the scenes, set 
down with as much modesty as cunning. 

I remember, one said, there were no sallets in the lines, 
to make the matter savoury : nor no matter in the phrase, 
that might indite the author of affectation ; but called it, 
an honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very 
much more handsome than fine. 

I have heard, 
That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, 
Have by the very cunning of the scene 
Been struck so to the soul, that presently 
They have proclaimed their malefactions ; 

The play, I remember, pleased not the million ; 'twas 
caviare to the general : 

I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharged, 
And duty in his service perishing. 



PLEASURE (s), 

Such comfort, as do lusty young men feel 
When well apparell'd April on the heel 



As You Like It. n. 



Timon of 
Athens. 



Pericles. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



Hamlet. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream.* v. 



>> >> 



Hamlet. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream, v. 



m. 



Twelfth Night, in 



IV. 



in. 



ii. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



PLEASURE— (Continued). 



TIAY OR FOEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Of limping Winter tread, even such delight 
Among fresh female buds shall you this night 
Inherit at my house ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


>> >> 


Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour. 


Richard II. 


>> n 


The last taste of sweets, is sweetest last ; 


11 n 


FLOWERS- 


Flowers are like the pleasures of the world ; 


Cymbeline. 


LOST— VALUE ... 


What our contempts do often hurl from us, 
We wish it ours again ; the present pleasure 
By revolution lowering, does become 
The opposite of itself : 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


PAIN 


Pain pays the income of each precious thing ; 


Tarquin. 


SEARCH— POSSES- 
SION... 


Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


n tt 


Where is the horse, that doth untread again 
His tedious measures with the unbated fire 
That he did pace them first ? 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


11 11 


How like a younker, or a prodigal, 

The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, 

Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind ! 

How like the prodigal doth she return ; 

With over- weather' d ribs, and ragged sails, 

Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind ! 


it n 


11 tt 


All things that are, 
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. 


it 11 


» » 


Who riseth from a feast, 
With that keen appetite that he sits down ? 


11 ii 


SURFEIT 


Sweets grown common lose their dead delight. 


Sonnet 102. 


»> 


They surfeited with honey ; and began 

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little 

More than a little is by much too much. 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


UNREASONABLE 


Pleasure and revenge 
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice 
Of any true decision. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 




POETRY. 




BAD— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 


I had rather hear a brazen can'stick turn'd, 

Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; 

And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, 

Noth'ng so much as mincing poetry : 

'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


>> >> 


I'll rhyme you so, eight years together; dinners and 
suppers, and sleeping hours excepted : it is the right butter- 
woman's rank to market. 


As You Like It. 


>> » 


The truest poetry is the most feigning : 


ii ii 


» w 


Our poets, is as a gum, which oozes 
From whence 'tis nourish' d : The fire i' the flint 
Shews not, till it be struck ; our gentle flame 
Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies 
Each bound it chafes. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


>> >> 


O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend 
The brightest heaven of invention ! 


Henry V. 



i. 


2 


it 


3 


ii. 


i 


IV. 


2 


I. 


ft 


ii 


If 


ii. 


6 


5J 


it 


11 


if 


It 


a 


III. 


2 


II. 


it 


III. 


I 


11 


2 


11 


3 


I. 


i 




Cho- 


t> 


rus 



*75 



CLASSIFICATION. 


POETRY— (Continued) . 


PLAT OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 


Begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb 








EXTEMPORE ... 


of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occa- 


Love's. Labour's 








sion : 


Lost. 


IV. 


2 


POWER 


Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. 


Two Gentlemen 










of Verona. 


in. 


1} 




POETS. 




BEAUTY 


If I could write the beauty of your eyes, 

And in fresh numbers number all your graces, 

The age to come would say, this poet lies, 

Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces. 


Sonnet 17. 






DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Why, thy verses swell with stuff so fine and smooth, 


Timon of 








That thou art even natural in thine art, — 


Athens. 


v. 


I 


„ —BAD ... 


I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, 










Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers : 


Henry IV. Pt.i. 


in. 


11 


„ —IMAGINA- 
TION 


The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, 

And, as imagination bodies forth 










The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


v. 


11 


LOVE 


Never durst poet touch a pen to write, 

Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs : 

O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, 


Love's Labour's 








And plant in tyrants mild humility. 


Lost. 


IV. 


3 


MADMEN- 


The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 


Midsummer 






LOVERS... 


Are of imagination all compact : 


Night's Dream 


v. 


1 


PRAISING— VICE... 


When we for recompense have praised the vile, 
It stains the glory in that happy verse 
Which aptly sings the good. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


1. 


»» 




POISON. 




DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, 
With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, 










Thy natural magic and dire property, 
On wholesome life usurp immediately. 


Hamlet. 


in. 


2 


—EFFECT 


Juice of cursed hebenon, whose effect 
Holds such an enmity with blood of man, 
That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through 
The natural gates and alleys of the body ; 
And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset 










And curd, like aigre droppings into milk, 
The thin and wholesome blood : 


» 


1. 


5 


» » 


An unction .... 
So mortal, that but dip a knife in it, 
Where it draws blood, no cataplasm so rare, 
Collected from all simples that have virtue 
Under the moon, can save the thing from death, 










That is but scratch'd withal : 


j) 


IV. 


7 


>> >> 


A dram of poison ; such soon-speeding gear 
As will disperse itself through all the veins, 
That the life-weary taker may fall dead ; 
And that the trunk may be discharg'd of breath 










As violently as hasty powder fir'd, 

Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


V. 


1 






176 



CLASSIFICATION. 



POISON— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
„ —TAKING 

GOLD 

PHYSIC 

PHYSICIANS 



PLANTS- 
FLOWERS. 



CONSCIENCE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



POLITICIAN 



LOVE 
MAN— DEVIL 

377 



They love not poison that do poison need, 

Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide ! 
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on 
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark ! 

There is thy gold ; worse poison to men's souls, 
Doing more murther in this loathsome world, 
Than these poor compounds. 

In poison there is physic ; 

Trust not the physician 
His antidotes are poison, 

Within the infant rind of this small flower 

Poison hath residence, and med'cine power : 

For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; 

Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. 



POLICY. 

I perceive, 
Men must learn now with pity to dispense ; 
For policy sits above conscience. 

Commodity, the bias of the world ; 
The world, who of itself is 'peised well, 
Made to run even, upon even ground ; 
Till this advantage, this vile drawing bias, 
This sway of motion, this commodity, 
Makes it take head from all indifferency, 
From all direction, purpose, course, intent. 

That same purpose-changer, that sly devil ; 
That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith ; 
That daily break-vow ; he, that wins of all, 
Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids ; — 
Who having no external thing to lose 
But the word maid, — cheats the poor maid of that ; 
That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity, — 

Get thee glass eyes ; 
And, like a scurvy politician, seem 
To see the things thou dost not. 

When we mean to build, 
We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; 
And when we see the figure of the house, 
Then must we rate the cost of the erection : 
Which if we find outweighs ability, 
What do we then, but draw anew the model 
In fewer offices ; or, at least, desist 
To build at all ? 

Let us, like merchants, shew our foulest wares, 
And think, perchance, they'll sell ; if not, 
The lustre of the better shall exceed, 
By shewing the worst first. 

That were some love but little policy. 

The devil knew not what he did, when he made man 
politic ; he crossed himself by't : and I cannot think, but, 
in the end, the villanies of man will set him clear. 



Richard 11. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Henry lV.Pt.2, 

Timon of 
Athens. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Timon of 
Athens. 



King John, 



v. 



IV. 



11. 



in. 



11. 



King Lear. 



HenryIF.Pt.2, 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Richard II. 



Timon of 
Athens. 



IV, 



V. 



III. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



POLITENESS. 



PLAT OB. POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
„ —EXTREME 



VALOUR 



DISCLAIMING 
HOLLOWNESS 



WRETCHEDNESS 



ARISTOCRACY- 
GOVERNMENT 



CONTEMPT 



„ —FLATTERY 



178 



POLITENESS (compliments). 

I am the very pink of courtesy. 

One of those gentle ones, that will use the devil himself 
with courtesy : 

'Twas never merry world, 
Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment : 

That they call compliment, is like the encounter of two 
dog-apes ; and when a man thanks me heartily, methinks 
I have given him a penny, and he renders me the beggarly 
thanks. 

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compli- 
ment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones 
too .... 



POMP (ceremony). 

Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye ; 

And what art thou, thou idol ceremony ? 
What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more 
Of mortal griefs, than do thy worshippers? 

O ceremony, shew me but thy worth ! 

What is thy soul of adoration ? 

Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, 

Creating awe and fear in other men ? 

Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd 

Than they in fearing. 

Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, 
Command the health of it ? 

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, 
But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness, 
And bid thy ceremony give thee cure ! 

Who'd be so mock'd with glory ? or to live 
But in a dream of friendship ? 
To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, 
But only painted, like his varnish'd friends ? 

O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us ! 



POPULACE (the). 

Where gentry, title, wisdom, 
Cannot conclude, but by the yea and no 
Of general ignorance, — it must omit 
Real necessities, and give way the while 
To unstable slightness : purpose so barr'd, it follows, 
Nothing is done to purpose : 

You speak o' the people, 
As if you were a god to punish, not 
A man of their infirmity. 

To seem to affect the malice and displeasure of the 
people, is as bad as that which he dislikes, to flatter them 
for their love. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Twelfth Night 



As You Like It 

Much Ado 
About Nothing 



Henry Till. 
Henry V. 



11. 



IV. 



in. 



11. 



IV. 



in. 



IV. 



Timon of 
Athens. 



Coriolanus. 






III. 



II. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



POPULACE— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



IGNORANCE- 
MERITS 



INGRATITUDE ... 
POWER— DANGER 



UNCERTAIN— DE- 
SCRIPTIVE OF .. 



There have been many great men that have flattered 
the people, who ne'er loved them ; and there be many they 
have loved, they know not wherefore: so that, if they 
love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground : 

Who deserves greatness, 
Deserves your hate : and your affections are 
A sick man's appetite, who desires most that 
Which would increase his evil. 

'Twas you incensed the rabble ; 
Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth, 
As I can of those mysteries which heaven 
Will not have earth to know. 

Our slippery people 
(Whose love is never link'd to the deserver, 
Till his deserts are past). 

Ingratitude is monstrous : and for the multitude to be 
ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude ; 

The rabble should have first unroof'd the city, 
Ere so prevail'd with me : it will in time 
Win upon power, and throw forth greater themes 
For insurrection's arguing. 

At once pluck out 
The multitudinous tongue, let them not lick 
The sweet which is their poison : your dishonour 
Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the state 
Of that integrity which should become it ; 
Not having the power to do the good it would, 
For the ill which doth control it. 

You grave, but reckless senators, have you thus 

Given Hydra here to choose an officer, 

That with his peremptory shall, being but 

The horn and noise o' the monsters, wants not spirit 

To say, he'll turn your current in a ditch, 

And make your channel his ? 

Thus we debase 
The nature of our seats, and make the rabble 
Call our cares, fears : which will in time break ope 
The locks o' the senate, and bring in the crows 
To peck the eagles. — 

You are no surer, no, 
Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, 
Or hailstone in the sun. 

He, that depends 
Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, 
And hews down oaks with rushes. 

He, that trusts you, 
Where he should find you lions, finds you hares ; 
Where foxes, geese : 

This common body, 
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, 
Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, 
To rot itself with motion. 

Look as I blow this feather from my face, 
And as the air blows it to me again, 
Obeying with my wind when I do blow, 
And yielding to another when it blows, 



Coriolanus. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Coriolanus. 



11. 



IV. 



u. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



in. 



179 



CLASSIFICATION. 


POPULACE— (Cwttinued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


UNCERTAIN— DE- 
SCRIPTIVE OF... 


Commanded always by the greater gust ; 
Such is the lightness of you common men, 


Henry VI.Pt.%. 


in. 


I 


}} n 


Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this 
multitude ? 


Henry PI.Pt.2. 


IV. 


8 


11 11 


The blunt monster with uncounted heads, 
The still-discordant wavering multitude, 


Henry IF. Pt. ,2. 


Indu 


?tion. 




POPULARITY. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
WON 


And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, 
And dress'd myself in such humility, 
That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, 
Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths, 


Henry lV.Pt.\. 


in. 


2 


»> n 


Thus did I keep my person fresh, and new ; 
My presence, like a robe pontifical, 
Ne'er seen, but wonder'd at : and so my state, 
Seldom, but sumptuous, showed like a feast ; 
And won, by rareness, such solemnity. 


11 11 


11 


11 


n n 


I have bought 
Golden opinions from all sorts of people, 


Macleth. 


1. 


7 


FAULTS 


He's loved of the distracted multitude, 
Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes ; 
And, where 'tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, 
But never the offence. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


3 


» 


The great love the general gender bear him : 
Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, 
Work like the spring that turneth wood to stone, 
Convert his gyves to graces ; 


i) 


a 


7 


UNCERTAIN 


An habitation giddy and unsure 

Hath he, that buildeth on the vulgar heart. 


Henry IV.Pt.2. 


1. 


3 




POVERTY (poor, the). 








CONTENT 


'Tis better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 


Henry VIII. 


11. 


3 


j> ... 


Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough ; 
But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, 
To him that ever fears he shall be poor : — 


Othello. 


in. 


» 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


In his needy shop a tortoise hung, 
An alligator stuff 'd, and other skins 
Of ill-shaped fishes ; and about his shelves 
A beggarly account of empty boxes, 
Green earthern pots, bladders, and musty seeds, 
Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, 
Were thinly scatter'd to make up a shew. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


V. 


1 


n 11 


My robe, 
And my integrity to heaven, is all 
I dare now call my own. 


Henry VIII. 


III. 


2 


11 ii 


Famine is in thy cheeks, 
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, 
Upon thy back hangs ragged misery, 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


V. 


1. 



180 



CLASSIFICATION. 



POVERTY— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 

„ —DRESSY 
EQUALITY— RICH 



FLATTERY 



FORTUNE 



FRIENDS— ENE- 
MIES. 

HOPE 



LAW 



LIBERTY 



PRIDE 



RICH (THE) 



„— VILLAINS 



SAFETY 



TAXES 



TEMPTATION 



181 



Meagre were his looks, 
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones ; 

Needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, 

It is the pasture lards the brother's sides, 
The want that makes him lean. 

Raise me this beggar, and denude that lord ; 
The senator shall bear contempt hereditary, 
The beggar native honour. 

Why should the poor be flatter'd? 
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. 

She either gives a stomach, and no food, — 
Such are the poor, in health ; or else a feast, 
And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich, 
That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 

The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. 

I think, 
Foundations fly the wretched ; such I mean, 
Where they should be relieved. 

A fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the 
law ; 'twill hardly come out. 

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law : 
The world affords no law to make thee rich ; 

Blessed be those, 
How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills, 
Which seasons comfort. — 

world, how apt the poor are to be proud ! 

Take physic, pomp : 
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; 
That thou may'st shake the superflux to them, 
And shew the Heavens more just. 

They ne'er cared for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and 
their store-houses crammed with grain : make edicts for 
usury, to support usurers ; repeal daily any wholesome act 
established against the rich ; and provide more piercing 
statutes daily, to chain up and restrain the poor. 

What authority surfeits on, would relieve us : If they 
would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome, 
we might guess, they relieved us humanely. 

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones 
may make what price they will. 

Often, to our comfort, shall we find 
The sharded beetle in a safer hold 
Than is the full-wing'd eagle. 

1 can raise no money by vile means : 
By Heaven, I had rather coin my heart, 

And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring 
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, 
By any indirection. 

My poverty, but not my will, consents. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Sonnet 66. 

Timon. of - 
Athens. 



Hamlet. 



RenrxjIV.Pt.2. 
Hamlet. 

Cymheline. 

Pericles. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Cymheline. 
Twelfth Night 



King Lear. 



Coriolanus. 



Much Ado 

About Nothing 



Cymheline. 



Julius C&sar. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



v. 



IV. 



III. 



IV, 



III. 



II. 



V. 



I. 



III. 



III. 



IV. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



POVERTY— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



sc. 



WINTER— HARD- 
SHIPS 



BOUGHT ... 

CAUSE 

DEAD 
DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DOUBT 



DUE 
FULSOME ... 

SELF-PRAISE 



Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, 
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, 
How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, 
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you 
From seasons such as these? 



PRAISE. 

A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. — 

No man 
Can justly praise, but what he does affect : 

Praising what is lost, 

Makes the remembrance dear. — 

Cram us with praise, and make us 
As fat as tame things :- 

He spoke your deservings like a chronicle ; 
Making you ever better than his praise, 
By still dispraising praise valued with you : 

I would applaud thee to the very echo, 
That should applaud again. — 

Like one of two contending in a prize, 
That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes, 
Hearing applause, and universal shout, 
Giddy in spirit, still gazing, in a doubt 
Whether those peals of praise be his or no ; 

Praises, which are paid as debts, 
And not as given. 

You shout me forth 
In acclamations hyperbolical : 
As if I loved my little should be dieted 
In praises sauced with lies. 

The worthiness of praise distains his worth, 
If that the praised himself bring the praise forth : 
But what the repining enemy commends, 
That breath fame follows ; that praise, sole pure, 
transcends. 

Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own 
chronicle ; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, 
devours the deed in the praise. 

It is most expedient for the wise, (if Don Worm, his 
conscience find no impediment to the contrary,) to be the 
trumpet of his own virtues, 

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of 
our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. 

If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he 
dies, he shall live no longer in monument, than the bell 
rings, and the widow weeps. 

There's not one wise man among twenty Ithat will 
praise himself. 

(Let me speak myself, 
Since virtue finds no friends,) 

When no friends are by, men praise themselves. 



King Lear. 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 

Tim on of 
Athens. 

AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 

Winter's Tale, 



Henry IV.Pt.i 
Macbeth. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Pericles. 



Coriolaims. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Much Ado 
about Nothing. 

All's Well That 
Ends Well. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Herny VIII. 

Titus 

Andronicus. 



m. 



IV. 



v. 



i. 



in. 



IV. 



ii. 



m. 



v. 



182 



CLASSIFICATION. 


PRAISE— CContmued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


UGLINESS 


Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


I 


WITHHOLDING ... 


'Twere a concealment 
Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, 
To hide your doings ; and to silence that, 
Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, 
Would seem but modest: 


Coriolanus. 


I. 


9 


WOMEN— POWER 


Our praises are our wages : You may ride us, 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 


Winter's Tale. 


» 


2 




PRAYER (s). 








DENIED— GOOD... 


We, ignorant of ourselves, 

Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers 

Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, 

By losing of our prayers. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


I 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
POWER 


My ending is despair, 
Unless I be relieved by prayer ; 
Which pierces so, that it assaults 
Mercy itself, and frees all faults. 


Tempest. 


V. 


>> 


» >> 


Whereto serves mercy, 
But to confront the visage of offence? 
And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — 
To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, 
Or pardon'd, being down ? 


Hamlet. 


III. 


3 


>> >> 


O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! 


Richard II. 


V. 


>> 


ENEMIES 


Ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st, 
Except it be to pray against thy foes. 


Henry Vl.Pt.i. 


I. 


i 


FAULT 


His worst fault is, that he is given to prayer; he is 
something peevish that way : but nobody but has his 
fault ; 


Merry Wives 
of Windsor. 


ft 


4 


FEIGNED— RETRI- 
BUTION 


That high All-seer which I dallied with, 
Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head, 
And given in earnest what I begged in jest. 


Richard III. 


V. 


i 


HOLY— PERSONS 


Prayers from preserved souls, 

From fasting maids, whose minds are dedicate 

To nothing temporal. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


II. 


2 


LONG 


Pray : but be not tedious, 
For the gods are quick of ear, 


Pericles. 


IV. 


I 


OBDURATE- 
DISBELIEF ... 


If I could pray to move, prayers would move me : 


Julius Co?sar. 


III. 


a 


WORDS- 
THOUGHTS ... 


When I would pray and think, I think and pray 

To several subjects : Heaven hath my empty words ; 

Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, 

Anchors on Isabel : Heaven in my mouth, 

As if I did but only chew his name ; 

And in my heart, the strong and swelling evil 

Of my conception. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


11. 


4 


>f >> 


Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. 


Hamlet. 


III. 


3 



183 



CLASSIFICATION. 



PRESENTIMENT. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





PRESENTIMENT (s.) 








DIVINE INSTINCT 


By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust 
Ensuing danger ; as, by proof, we see 
The water swell before a boist'rous storm. 


Richard III. 


11. 


3 


FEARS 


He, that but fears the thing he would not know, 
Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, 
That what he fear'd is chanced. 


Henry IV.Pt.z. 


1. 


1 


GOOD— EVIL 


Against ill chances, men are ever merry ; 
But heaviness foreruns the good event. 


>» >> 


IV. 


2 




PRIDE. 








BASE— TRIFLES ... 


Small things make base men proud: 


Henry FI.Pt.2. 


in. 


1 


CAUSE— VARIOUS 


Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, 

Some in their wealth, some in their body's force ; 

Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill ; 

Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse ; 

And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure, 
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest ; 


Soiinet 91. 






DESCRIPTIVE OF 


He is so plaguy proud, that the death-tokens of it 
Cry — No recovery. 


Troilas and 
Cressida. 


11. 


3 


» » 


Lion-sick, sick of proud heart : you may call it melan- 
choly, if you will favour the man ; but, by my head, 'tis 
pride : 


»> >> 


>> 


j> 


>> >t 


Pride hath no other glass 
To shew itself but pride ; for supple knees 
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. 


>> » 


in. 


>t 


FALL 


Pride must have a fall, 


Richard II. 


V. 


5 


HATRED 


I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of 
toads. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


11. 


3 


OTHERS— SELF ... 


You talk of pride; O, that you could turn your eyes 
towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior 
survey of your good selves ! 


Coriolanus 


>> 


1 


POOR (THE) 


O ! world, how apt the poor are to be proud ! 


Twelfth Night. 


III. 


>> 


SELF-PRAISE 


He, that is proud, eats up himself : pride is his own 
glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever 
praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


II. 


3 


UNIVERSAL 


Who cries out on pride, 
That can therein tax any private party ? 
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea, 
Till that the very means do ebb ? 


As You Like It. 


>> 


7 


WILLING 


All pride is willing pride, and yours is so. 


Love's Lalou7' , s 
Lost. 


II. 


1 


WOMEN— BEAUTY 


'Tis beauty, that doth oft make women proud. 


Henry YI.Pt.3. 


I. 


4 




PROMISES. 








BREAKERS 


Be these juggling fiends no more believed, 
That palter with us in a double sense ; 
That keep the word of promise to our ear, 
And break it to our hope. 


Macbeth. 


V. 


7 



184 



CLASSIFICATION. 


PROMISES — CCondnried). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


BREAKERS 


I see, sir, you are liberal in offers ; 
You taught me first to beg ; and now, methinks, 
You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


IV. 


I 


,, 


Trust not him, that hath once broken faith, 


Henry n.Pt.3. 


>> 


4 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
KEPT 


Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens, 

That one day bloom'd, and fruitful were the next. — 


Henry Vl.Pt.i. 


I. 


6 


MAKING 


I have said nothing, but what I protest intendment of 
doing. 


Othello. 


IV. 


2 


PERFORMANCE ... 


Faith, I have heard too much : for your words and 
performances are no kin together. 


» 


>> 


j> 


n 


His promises were, as he was then, mighty ; 
But his performance, as he is now, nothing. 


Henry Fill. 


>> 


>> 


,, 


To promise is most courtly and fashionable : perform- 
ance is a kind of will or testament, which argues a great 
sickness in his judgment that makes it. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


V. 


1 


>> 


Promising is the very air o' the time : it opens the eyes 
of expectation : performance is ever the duller for his act : 
and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the 
deed of saying is quite out of use. 


>> >> 


>> 


» 




PROPHECY. 








TIMES— SIGNS ... 


There is a history in all men's lives, 
Figuring the nature of the times deceased : 
The which observed, a man may prophesy, 
With a near aim, of the main chance of things 
As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, 
And weak beginnings lie intreasured. 


Henry IV. Ft. 2. 


III. 


>> 




PROVIDENCE. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


It is not so with Him, that all things knows, 
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows : 
But most it is presumption in us, when 
The help of heaven we count the act of men. 


AIVs Well That 
Ends Well. 


II. 


j> 


>> >> 


There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 


Hamlet. 


V. 


2 


tf >> 


There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 
If it be now, 'tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will 
be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness 
is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't 
to leave betimes ? 


>> 


>> 


»> 


SUBMISSION 


The means, that Heaven yields, must be embraced, 
And not neglected ; else, if Heaven would, 
And we will not, Heaven's offer we refuse ; 


Richard II. 


III. 


u 


>> ••«£ 


Heaven hath a hand in these events ; 
To whose high will we bound our calm contents, 


>J 


V. 


2 




QUARRELS. 




ANGER— REASON 


Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion sway 
In this uncivil and unjust extent 
Against thy peace. 


Twelfth Night. 


IV. 


1 



185 



CLASSIFICATION. 


QUARRELS— (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


AVOIDANCE- 
BEARING... 


Be able for thine enemy 
Rather in power, than use : 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


i. 


I 


a a 


Beware 
Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, 
Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. 


Hamlet. 


a 


3 


ii SI 


In the managing of quarrels you may see he is wise ; 
for either he avoids them with great discretion, or under- 
takes them with a most Christian-like fear. 


Much Ado 
Ahout Nothing. 


ii. 


a 


ii It 


If he do fear God, he must necessarily keep peace ; if he 
break the peace, he ought to enter into a quarrel with fear 
and trembling. 


a » 


ff 


n 


COURAGE- 
WRONG ... 


In a false quarrel there is no true valour : 


a a 


v. 


i 


RIGHT... 


Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just : 


Henry Vl.Pt.2. 


in. 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal : 
'Tis not the trial of a woman's war, 
The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, 
Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain : 


Richard II. 


i. 


I 


„ TRIVIAL ... 


When we debate 
Our trivial differences loud, we do commit 
Murder in healing wounds : 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


ii. 


2 


„ UNNATU- 
RAL 


It is a quarrel most unnatural, 
To be revenged on him that loveth thee. 


Richard III. 


i. 


a 


DISLIKE ... 


'Tis death to me, to be at enmity ; 

I hate it, and desire all good men's love. — 


a 


ii. 


I 


FRIENDS 


Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, 
Destroy our friends, and after weep their dust : 
Our own love waking cries to see what's done, 
While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon. 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


V. 


3 


PROMPTER 


Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it 
Without a prompter. 


Othello. 


I. 


i 


QUARRELSOME 

PEOPLE ... 


I have heard of some kind of men, that put quarrels 
purposely on others, to taste their valour : 


Twelfth Night. 


III. 


4 


,, 


Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having 
no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


ii 


i 


,, 


What eye, but such an eye, would spy out such a quarrel ? 


a a 


ii 


a 


)> 


Thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or 
a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast. 


5> ii 


n 


a 


a 


Thy head is as full of quarrels, as an egg is full of 
meat ; 


>> a 


a 


a 


,, 


Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the 
street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain 
asleep in the sun. 


ii ii 


a 


a 




REASON (s). 








ACTIONS 


Strong reasons make strong actions : 


King John. 


ill. 


4 


ANGER 


Is your blood 
So madly hot, that no discourse of reason, 
Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause, 
Can qualify the same ? 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


II. 


2 



186 



CLASSIFICATION. 



REASON— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. 



ACT. 



SC. 



ANGER 

COMPULSION .. 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 

„ WEAK.. 



GOOD— BETTER.. 
SENSUALITY 



USE 



VALOUR ... 



SENSITIVE 



UNMERITED 
UNTIMELY 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



The reasons you allege, do more conduce 
To the hot passion of distemper'd blood, 
Than to make up a free determination 
'Twixt right and wrong 

Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as 
plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason 
upon compulsion, I. 

The why is plain as way to parish-church: 

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two 
bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find 
them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the 
search. 

Good reasons must, of force, give place to better. 

If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason 
to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of 
our natures would conduct us to most preposterous con- 
clusions : But we have reason to cool our raging motions, 
our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts ; 

Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, 
Looking before, and after, gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason 
To fust in us unused. 



Manhood and honour 
Should have hare hearts, would 

thoughts 
With this cramm'd reason : reason and respect 
Make livers pale, and lustihood deject. 



they but fat their 



REBUKE. 

I have a touch of your condition, 

That cannot brook the accent of reproof. 

Forbear sharp speeches to her : She's a lady 
So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, 
And strokes death to her. 

My caution was more pertinent 
Than the rebuke you give it. 

In such a time as this, it is not meet 

That every nice offence should bear his comment. 



REFORM (character). 

Consideration like an angel came, 

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him ; 

Leaving his body as a paradise, 

To envelop and contain celestial spirits. 

You shall find, his vanities forespent 
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, 
Covering discretion with a coat of folly : 

Anything that's mended, is but patched : virtue, 
transgresses, is but patched with sin ; and sin, 
amends, is but patched with virtue : 



that 
that 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Henry IF.Pt.i. 

As You Like It 



Merchant of 
Venice. 

Julius Caesar. 



Othello. 



Hamlet. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Richard III. 

Cymleline. 
Coriolanus. 
Julius Caesar. 



Henry V. 



n. 



i. 
in. 



IV. 



ii. 



IV. 



in. 



ii. 



IV. 



Twelfth Night. 



ii. 



187 



CLASSIFICATION. 


REFORM— (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
MISPLACED 


He weeds the corn, and still lets grow the weeding. 


Love 1 's Labour' 1 's 
Lost. 


I. 


I 


„ INTENTION 


To shame the guise o' the world, I will begin 
The fashion, less without, and more within. 


Cymbeline. 


v. 


>> 


j> >> 


So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, 
And pay the debt I never promised, 
By how much better than my word I am, 
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; 
And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, 
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, 
Shall shew more goodly, and attract more eyes, 
Than that, which hath no foil to set it off. 


Henry IV. Pt. i . 


i. 


2 


„ SUDDEN ... 


Never was such a sudden scholar made ; 

Never came reformation in a flood, 

Wiih such a heady current, scouring faults ; 

Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness 

So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, 


Henry V.Pt. i. 


>> 


. 




RELIGION. 








CONTEMPLATION 

—SWEET 


When holy and devout religious men 

Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence ; 

So sweet is zealous contemplation. 


Richard III. 


in. 


7 


ENEMIES 


Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh ; 
And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st, 
Except it be to pray against thy foes. 


HenryVl.Pt.i. 


i. 


■ i 


ERRORS— TEXTS 


In religion, 
What damned error, but some sober brow, 
Will bless it, and approve it with a text, 
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


m. 


2 


ft 5> 


The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 


»» J> 


i. 


3 


>> >> 


An evil soul, producing holy witness, 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; 
A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; 


1) >> 


>> 


>> 


TRIALS ... 


Whom best I love, I cross ; to make my gift, 
The more delay'd, delighted. 


Cymbeline. 


V. 


4 


VOWS 


It is religion, that doth make vows kept ; 
But thou hast sworn against religion ; 


King John. 


III. 


r 


WISDOM— SIMPLI- 
CITY 


He that of greatest works is finisher, 
Oft does them by the weakest minister : 
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, 
When judges have been babes. 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


II. 


» 


WORDS— EMPTY... 


And sweet religion makes 
A rhapsody of words : 


Hamlet. 


III. 


4 




REPENTANCE. 








DEEDS— HASTY ... 


Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, 
Which after-hours give leisure to repent. 


Richard 111. 


IV. 


4 


„ —PERSISTED 


Strange it is, 
That nature must compel us to lament 
Our most persisted deeds. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


V. 


i 



188 



CLASSIFICATION. 


REPENTANCE— (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


EXPRESSING 


O, when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth 
Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal 
Witness against us to damnation ! 


King yohn. 


IV. 


,, 


Thou canst not speak too much ; I have deserved 
All tongues to talk their bitterest. 


Winter's Tale. 


1 1 1. 


,, 


The heaviness and guilt within my bosom 
Takes off my manhood: 


Cymbeline. 


V. 


,, 


O, would the deed were good ! 

For now the devil, that told me— I did well, 

Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell, 


Richard IT. 


>» 


,, ... 


When we shall meet at compt, 
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, 
And fiends will snatch at it. 


Othello. 


>> 


FEAR— CAUSE ... 


You do repent, 
As that the sin hath brought you to this shame, — 
Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not Heaven ; 
Shewing, we'd not spare Heaven as we love it, 
But as we stand in fear, — 


Measure for 
Measure. 


11. 


GOOD ACTIONS ... 


How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be 
just! 


King Lear. 


in. 


POWER— MERCY.:. 


What if this cursed hand 
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ? 
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens, 
To wash it white as snow ? 


Hamlet. 


}> 


j> >> 


Try what repentance can : What can it not ? 
Yet what can it, when one cannot repent ? 


>> 


n 


RESOLUTION ... 


Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some 
liking ; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall 
have no strength to repent. 


HenrylV.Pt.i. 


>> 


SATISFACTION ... 


Who by repentance is not satisfied, 

Is nor of heaven, nor earth ; for these are pleas'd ; 

By penitence the eternal's wrath's appeas'd : 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


V. 


URGING 


Since thou hast far to go, bear not along 
The clogging burden of a guilty soul. 


Richard II. 


I. 


,, 


Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven ? 


HenryIV.Pt.2. 


II. 


»> 


If you bethink yourself of any crime, 
Unreconciled as yet to Heaven and grace, 
Solicit for it straight. 


Othello. 


V. 


WRONGS— UN- 
SATISFACTORY 


The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief 
To him that bears the strong offence's cross. 


Sonnet 34. 






REPUTATION. 


/ 




DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got 
without merit, and lost without deserving : 


Othello. 


II. 


GLORY 


Seeking the bubble reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth : 


As You Like It. 


>> 


DANGER— LOSING 


I see, my reputation is at stake, 
My fame is shrewdly K gored. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


» >> 


You unlace your reputation thus, 
And spend your rich opinion, for the name 
Of a night-brawler. 


Othello. 


II. 



sc. 



189 



CLASSIFICATION. 



REPUTATION— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



LOST 



SLANDER .. 



VALUE— GOOD 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



CIRCUMSTANCES 



DOUBT 



EXPRESSING 



FORGOTTEN 



INCITING ... 



Reputation, reputation, reputation ! O, I have lost my 
reputation ! I have lost the immortal part, Sir, of myself, 
and what remains is bestial. 

'Tis better to be vile, than vile esteem' d, 

When not to be receives reproach of being : 

And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem'd 
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing. 

Good name, in man and woman, dear my lord, 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls : 

Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing; 
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : 
But he, that filches from me my good name, 
Robs me of that, which not enriches him, 
And makes me poor indeed. 

The purest treasure mortal times afford, 

Is — spotless reputation ; that away, 

Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 



RESERVE (character). 

I want that glib and oily art, 
To speak and purpose not ; 

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave 
My heart into my mouth : 

A tardiness in nature, 
Which often leaves the history unspoke. 



RESOLUTION. 

Our wills, and fates, do so contrary run, 

That our devices still are overthrown ; 

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own 

To be once in doubt, 
Is — once to be resolved : 

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, 

Unless the deed go with it : From this moment, 

The very firstlings of my heart shall be 

The firstlings of my hand. 

If I could pray to move, prayers would move me : 
But I am constant as the northern star, 
Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality, 
There is no fellow in the firmament. 

My resolution's placed, and I have nothing 
Of woman in me: Now from head to foot 
I am marble-constant : now the fleeting moon 
No planet is of mine. 

Most necessary 'tis, that we forget 
To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt ; 
What to ourselves in passion we propose, 
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. 

Hie thee hither, 
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear : 
And chastise with the valour of my tongue 



Othello. 



Sonnet 12 1. 



Othello. 



Richard II. 



King Lear. 



11. 



in. 



Hamlet. 
Othello. 

Macbeth. 

Julius C&sar. 



Antony and 
C'eopatra. 



Hamlet. 



111. 



IV. 



in. 



V. 



III. 



190 



CLASSIFICATION. 



RESOLUTION— CContinuedJ. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



INCITING ... 



IRRESOLUTION 



MEMORY 



THINKING- 
TION . 



-INAC 



CHRISTIAN—JEW 



COWARDICE 
DIVINE— HUMAN 



IGNOBLE ... 
INCITING ... 



INSATIABLE 



I 9 1 



All that impedes thee from the golden round, 
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem 
To have thee crown'd withal. — 

Art thou afear'd 
To be the same in thine own act and valour, 
As thou art in desire ? Wouldst thou have that 
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, 
And live a coward in thine own esteem ; 
Letting I dare not wait upon I would, 

I have no spur 
To prick the sides of my intent, but only 
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps it's selle, 
And falls on the other side. — 

I must be brief, lest resolution drop 

Out at mine eyes, in tender womanish tears. — 

Like a man to double business bound, 
I stand in pause where I shall first begin, 
And both neglect. 

Purpose is but the slave to memory : 

Of violent birth, but poor validity : 

Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree ; 

But fall, unskaken, when they mellow be. 

The native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; 
And enterprizes of great pith and moment, 
With this regard, their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action. — 

Whether it be 
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple 
Of thinking too precisely on the event, — 
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, 
And, ever, three parts coward, — I do not know 
Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; 



REVENGE. 

If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? 
revenge ; if a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his 
sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. 

To revenge is no valour, but to bear. 

If God will be avenged for the deed, 
O, know you, that he doth it publicly; 
Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm ; 
He needs no indirect nor lawless course, 
To cut off those that have offended him. 

Thinks thou it honourable for a noble man 
Still to remember wrongs ? — 

Let not conscience, 
Which is but cold, inflame love in thy bosom, 
Inflame too nicely ; nor let pity, which 
Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be 
A soldier to thy purpose. 

Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge 
Had stomach for them all. 



Macbeth. 



King John. 



Hamlet. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



IV. 



in. 



IV. 



111. 



Richard 111. 



Coriolanus. 



Pericles. 
Othello. 



IV. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



REVENGE— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



KINDNESS 

UNBOUNDED 

UNREASONABLE. 

VOW 



PRAYERS— GRATI- 
TUDE 



VIRTUE— TIME 



COMPETENCY 



CONTEMPT- 
MISERY 



Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. 

Revenge should have no bounds. 

Pleasure and revenge 
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice 
Of any true decision. 

Like to the Pontic sea, 
Whose icy current and compulsive course 
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on 
To the Propontic, and the Hellespont ; 
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, 
Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, 
Till that a capable and wide revenge 
Swallow them up. — 

Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell, 
Yield up, O love, thy crown, and hearted throne, 
To tyrannous hate ! swell bosom, with thy fraught, 
For 'tis of aspics' tongues ! 

A holy vow, 
Never to taste the pleasures of the world, 
Never to be infected with delight, 
Nor conversant with ease and idleness, 
Till I have set a glory to this hand, 
By giving it the worship of revenge. 

Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, 
Nor age so eat up my invention, 
Nor fortune made such havock of my means, 
Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, 
But they shall find, awaked in such a kind, 
Both strength of limb, and policy of mind, 
Ability in means, and choice of friends, 
To quit me of them thoroughly. 

If I can catch him once upon the hip, 

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 



REWARD. 

Not with foul shekels of the tested gold, 
Or stones, whose rates are either rich, or poor, 
As fancy values them : but with true prayers, 
That shall be up at heaven, and enter there, 
Ere sun-rise. — 

O, let not virtue seek 
Remuneration for the thing it was ! 
For beauty, wit, 

High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, 
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all 
To envious and calumniating time. 



RICHES. 

It is no small happiness, therefore, to be seated in the 
mean : superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but com- 
petency lives longer. 

Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt 
Since riches point to misery and contempt ? 



As You Like It, 
Hamlet. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Othello. 



King John 



Much Ado 
About Nothing, 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



IV. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



192 



CLASSIFICATION. 


RICHES— (Continued}. 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


SC. 


DEATH 


If thou art rich, thou'rt poor ; 
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, 
Thou bear'st thy riches but a journey, 
And death unloads thee. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


in. 


I 


DISCONTENT ... 


Nought's had, all's spent, 
Where our desire is got without content : 


Macbeth. 


>> 


2 


FLATTERY 


Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise, 
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made : 


Timon of 
Athens. 


ii. 


)> 


„ LEARNING 


The learned pate 
Ducks to the golden fool : 


tt tt 


IV. 


3 


FORTUNE (DAME) 


She either gives a stomach, and no food, — 
Such are the poor, in health ; or else a feast, 
And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich, 
That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 


Henry IV. Pt.2. 


)> 


4 


>> ft 


It is still her use, 
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, 
To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow, 
An age of poverty ; 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


>> 


i 


FRIENDSHIP- 
MOCKERY 


Who'd be so mock'd with glory ? or to live 
But in a dream of friendship ? 
To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, 
But only painted, like his varnish'd friends ? 


Timon of 
Athens. 


)> 


2 


GLORY— MADNESS 


Like madness is the glory of this life, 

As this pomp shews to a little oil, and root. 


tt >> 


I. 


>> 


ILLGOTTEN 


Now does he feel his title 
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe 
Upon a dwarfish thief. 


Macbeth. 


V. 


>> 


MISERS— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a 
whale ; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before 
him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Such 
whales have I heard .on a' the land, who never leave 
gaping, till they've swallow'd the whole parish, church, 
steeple, bells, and all. 


Pericles. 


II. 


I 


NATURE (HUMAN) 
—CONTEMPT ... 


Not nature, 
To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune, 
But by contempt of nature. 
Raise me this beggar, and denude that lord ; 
The senator shall bear contempt hereditary, 
The beggar native honour. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 


POOR— VILLAINS 


When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones 
may make what price they will. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


III. 


>> 


POVERTY— CON- 
TENT 


Willing misery 
Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before : 
The one is filling still, never complete ; 
The other, at high wish : Best state, contentless, 
Hath a distracted and most wretched being, 
Worse than the worst, content. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


>> 


» >> 


'Tis better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 


Henry VIII. 


II. 


jj 


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Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough ; 
But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, 
To him that ever fears he shall be poor : — 


Othello. 


III. 


>> 


„ —EQUALITY 


It is the pasture lards the brother's sides, 
The want that makes him lean. 


Timon of 
1 Athens. 


IV. 


a 



!93 



CLASSIFICATION. 


RICHES— (Continued) . 


PLAY OB POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


POWER 


This yellow slave 
Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed, 
Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves 
And give them title, knee and approbation 
With senators on the bench : this it is 
That makes the wappen'd widow wed again ; 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 


VIRTUE— ABILITY 


I held it ever, 
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches ; careless heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend ; 
But immortality attends the former. 
Making a man a god. 


Pericles. 


III. 


2 




RIOTS (rebellions). 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Face the garment of rebellion 

With some £ne colour, that may please the eye 

Of fickle changelings, and poor discontents, 

Which gape and rub the elbow at the news 

Of hurlyburly innovation : 

And never yet did insurrection want 

Such water-colours, to impaint his cause ; 

Nor moody beggars, starving for a time 

Of pell-mell havock and confusion. 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


V. 


I 


tf >> 


Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap, — 

The one, in fear to lose what they enjoy, 

The other, to enjoy by rage and war : 

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. — 


Richard II. 


II. 


3 


„ —SHORT- 
LIVED 


The rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last; 

For violent fires soon burn out themselves : 

Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short ; 


>> V 


» 


i 


JUSTIFYING 


Such is the infection of the time, 
That, for the health and physic of our right, 
We cannot deal but with the very hand 
Of stern injustice and confused wrong. — 


King yohn. 


V. 


2 


REBEL 


Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


>J 


I 


,, 


Treason is but trusted like the fox, 

Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd, and lock'd up, 

Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. 


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>> 


2 


REGRETTING ... 


I am not glad, that such a sore of time 
Should seek a plaster by contemn' d revolt, 
And heal the inveterate canker of one wound, 
By making many. 


King yohn. 
HenryIF.Pt.2. 


III. 


>> 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
EXAGGERATION 


RUMOUR (s). 

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, 


I 


>> » 


Who will stop 
The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks ? 


i? » 


Indue 


•tion. 


» >> 


Rumour is a pipe 
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures ; 
And of so easy and so plain a stop, 
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 
The still-discordant wavering multitude, 
Can play upon it. 


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194 



CLASSIFICATION. 


RUMOUR-— (Continued). 


TLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 


Rumour's tongues 






EXAGGERATION 


Bring - smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs. 


HenryIF.Pt.2. 


Induction. 


» >> 


They are yet but ear-kissing arguments ? 


King Lear. 


ii. 


I 


PEACE— FALSE ... 


I speak of peace, while covert enmity, 
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world : 


HcnryIF.Pt.2. 


Induction. 


SLANDER 


Upon my tongues continual slanders ride ; 
The which in every language I pronounce, 
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. 


>' tt 


» 


» 


WAR— FALSE 


Who but Rumour, 
Makes fearful musters, and prepared defence ; 
Whilst the big year, swoln with some other grief, 
Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, 










And no such matter. 


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tt 


1} 




SADNESS 










(SEE ALSO MELANCHOLY). 








EXPERIENCE 


I had rather have a fool to make me merry than 










experience to make me sad ; 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


I 


UNACCOUNTABLE 


In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : 
It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; 
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, 
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, 

I am to learn ; 
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, 


Merchant of 








That I have much ado to know myself. 


Venice. 


i. 


J» 




SEASONABLE (things). 








DESCRIPTIVE OF... 


How many things by season season'd are 










To their right praise, and true perfection ! — 


}t >> 


V. 


I 


»> >t 


The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, 
When neither is attended : and, I think, 










The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every goose is cackling, would be thought 
No better a musician than the wren. 


j) >} 


.V 


}1 


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Why should proud summer boast 
Before the birds have any cause to sing ? 
Why should I joy in an abortive birth ? 
At Christmas I no more desire a rose, ") 
Than wish a snow in May's new fangled mirth ; > 


Love's Labour's 








But like of each thing, that in season grows. ) 


Lost. 


I. 


»» 


» tt 


There's a time for all things. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


II. 


2 


>> >> 


All solemn things 
Should answer solemn accidents. 










Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, 
Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys. 


Cymheline. 


IV. 


3 


>> >> 


'Who wears a garment shapeless and unfinish'd ? 
Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth ? 










If springing things be any jot diminish' d, 

They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth : 


Venus and 
Adonis. 


1 





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CLASSIFICATION. 



SECRETS. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DISCOVERY— AN- 
TICIPATED 

DIVULGING 



KINGS 



» 



KNOWLEDGE- 
REQUESTING. 



ONE— TWO 
WOMEN ... 



ASSERTION 



DECEPTION 



SECRETS. 

So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and 
your secresy moult no feather. 

In despite of sense and secrecy, 
Unpeg the basket on the house's top, 
Let the birds fly ; and, like the famous ape, 
To try conclusions, in the basket creep, 
And break your own neck down. 

And now I will unclasp a secret book, 
And to your quick-conceiving discontents 
I'll read you matter deep and dangerous ; 
As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, 
As to o'erwalk a current, roaring loud, 
On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. 

Repent that e'er thy tongue 
Hath so betray' d thine act : being done unknown, 
I should have found it afterwards well done ; 
But must condemn it now. 

I'll tell you ; 
Since I am charged in honour, and by him 
That I think honourable : 

I perceive he was a wise fellow, and had good discre- 
tion, that being bid to ask what he would of the king, 
desired he might know none of his secrets. 

Who hath a book of all that monarchs do, 
He's more secure to keep it shut, than shown : 

If you know aught which does behove my knowledge 
Thereof to be inform'd, imprison it not 
In ignorant concealment. 

Two may keep counsel, putting one away ? 
How hard it is for women to keep counsel ! — 



I96 



SELF. 

My demerits 
May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune 
As this that I have reach'd : 

Men may construe things after their fashion, 
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. 

This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when 
we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own be- 
haviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the 
moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; 
fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and 
treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, 
and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary 
influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting 
on : 

I will not reason what is meant thereby, 
Because I will be guiltless of the meaning. 

She is persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love 
and flattery, not out of my promise. 



Hamlet. 



Henry IV. Pt. 1 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Winter's Tale. 



Pericles. 



11. 



Til, 



Winter'' s Tale. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Julius Caesar. 



Othello. 



Julius Caesar. 



King Lear. 
Richard III. 
Othello. 



11. 



1. 



11. 



IV. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SELF — (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SO. 



DECEPTION 



PRESERVATION 



RESPECT ... 



LOVE 



v. NEGLECT 



PRAISE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
FAITHFUL... 



—SIMPLE 



GOD— COUNTRY. 



Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, .... 
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place ; 
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, 
Infects unseen. 

Would not understand what was most fit ; 
But, like the owner of a foul disease, 
To keep it from divulging, let it feed 
Even on the pith of life. 

Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, 
lest it break thy neck with following it : but the great one 
that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. 

To thine ownself be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

Where is truth, if there be no self -trust ? 
When shall he think to find a stranger just, 
When he himself himself confounds, 

Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee ; 

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 
As self -neglecting. 

The worthiness of praise distains his worth, 

If that the prais'd himself bring the praise forth : 

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed 
in the praise. 

There's not one wise man among twenty that will 
praise himself. 

It is most expedient for the wise, (if Don Worm, his 
conscience, find no impediment to the contrary,) to be the 
trumpet of his own virtues, 

If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he 
dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bells 
ring, and the widow weeps. 



SERVANTS (service). 

A lowly factor for another's gain ; 

How well in thee appears 
The constant service of the antique world, 
When service sweat for duty, not for meed 1 

Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 
Where none will sweat, but for promotion ; 
And having that, do choke their service up 
Even with the having : 

He, that can endure 
To follow with allegianee a fallen lord, 
Does conquer him that did his master conquer, 
And earns a place i' the story. 

Such harmless creatures have a true respect 
To talk in deeds, while others saucily 
Promise more speed, but do it leisurely : 

Had I but served my God with half the zeal 
I served my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 



Hamlet. 



King Lear. 

Hamlet. 

Tarquin. 
Henry Fill. 

Henry V. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Richard III. 



As You Like It. 



53 J> 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Tarquin. 



Henry VIII. 



in. 



IV. 



ii. 



i. 



in. 



ii. 



i. 



ii. 



in. 



ii. 



in. 



I 9 7 



CLASSIFICATION. 


SERVANTS— (Continued). 


PLAT OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


GOOD— QUALIFI- 
CATIONS 


I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious tale 
in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly : that 
which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in ; and the 
best of me is diligence. 


King Lear. 


I. 


4 


HONEST 


If ever I were wilful-negligent, 
It was my folly ; if industriously 
I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, 
Not weighing well the end ; if ever fearful 
To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, 
Whereof the execution did cry out 
Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear 
Which oft affects the wisest : these, my lord, 
Are such allow' d infirmities, that honesty 
Is never free of. 


Winter's Tale. 


» 


2 


MASTERS 


We cannot all be master, nor all masters 
Cannot be truly follow'd. 


Othello. 


>> 


I 


MERRY 


A trusty villain, sir; that very oft, 
When I am dull with care and melancholy, 
Lightens my humour with his merry jests. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


>> 


2 


OBSEQUIOUS v. 

BLUNT... 


These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness 
Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends, 
Than twenty silly ducking observants, 
That stretch their duties nicely. 


King Lear. 


ii. 


}} 


DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 


You shall mark 
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, 
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, 
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, 
For nought but provender : and when he's old, cashier'd ; 


Othello. 


I. 


I 


PROMOTION 


Preferment goes by letter and affection, 
Not by the old gradation, where each second 
Stood heir to the first. 


>> 


>> 


» 


PROUD— SINFUL... 


A serving-man, proud in heart and mind ; that curled 
my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of my 
mistress's heart, and did the act of darkness with her ; 
swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them 
in the sweet face of heaven : one, that slept in the con- 
triving of lust, and waked to do it : 


King Lear. 


in. 


4 


SELF-SERVING ... 


Trimm'd in forms and visages of duty, 
Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves ; 
And, throwing but shews of service on their lords, 
Do well thrive by them, and, when they have lined their 

coats, 
Do themselves homage : 


Othello. 


i. 


i 


UNFAITHFUL ... 


Many so arrive at second masters, 

Upon their first lord's neck. 

■ 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 




SHREWS. 








DEFIANCE 


Have I not in the pitched battle heard 

Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang ? 

And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, 

That gives not half so great a blow to the ear, 

As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire ? 

Tush ! Tush ! fear boys with bugs. 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


I. 


2 



198 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SHREWS— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DEFIANCE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



it 



DISCLAIMING 



FEAR— EXPRESS- 
ING 



TRACTABLE- 
ALONE 

TREATMENT 



Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears ? 
Have I not in my time heard lions roar ? 
Have I not heard the sea, puff 'd up with winds, 
Rage like an angry boar, chafed with sweat ? 
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, 
And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies ? 

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block ; an 
oak, but with one green leaf on it, would have answer'd 
her : 

I would not marry her, though she were endowed with 
all that Adam had left him before he transgressed : she 
would have made Hercules have turned spit ; yea, and 
have cleft his club to make the fire too. • 

Talk not of her ; you shall find her the infernal Ate in 
good apparel. I would to God, some scholar would 
conjure her; for, certainly, while she is here, a man may 
live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary; 

She speaks poinards, and every word stabs : if her 
breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no 
living near her, she would infect to the north star. 

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, 
Misprising what they look on : 

So turns she every man the wrong side out ; 
And never gives to truth and virtue that 
Which simpleness and merit purchaseth. 

I never yet saw man, 
How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured, 
But she would spell him backward : 

Katharina the curst ! 
A title for a maid, of all titles the worst. 

Like a shrew, you first begin to brawl. 

A callat, 
Of boundless tongue ; who late hath beat her husband, 
And now baits me ! — 

O, when she is angry, she is keen and shrew'd ; 
She was a vixen when she went to school ; 

I was never curst : 
I have no gift at all in shrewishness ; 
I am a right maid for my cowardice ; 

I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes, 
that you can devise to send me on ; I will fetch you a 
tooth-picker now, from the farthest inch of Asia ; bring 
you the length of Prester John's foot ; fetch you a hair off 
the great Cham's beard ; do you any embassage to the 
Pigmies, rather than hold three words conference with 
this harpy : 

'Tis a world to see, 
How tame, when men and women are alone, 
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. — 

If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks, 

As though she bid me stay by her a week ; 

If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day 

When I shall ask the banns, and when be married. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



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>7 35 



» 1) 



» >> 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



Winter's Tale. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream, 



>> » 



ii. 



in. 



T. 



IV, 



II. 



III. 



Much Ado 

About Nothbig.\ ii. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



»> >> 



T 99 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SHREWS— (Continued). 



PLAY OK POEM. ACT. SC. 



TREATMENT 



CATCHING 

DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
CRISIS 



-HUMOURS 



„ —PRO- 

LONGED 



„ —SLIGHT... 

DOCTORS— NEWS 

DUTIES— NEG- 
LECT 

MIND— BODY 



Say, that she rail, — why, then I'll tell her plain, 

She sings as sweetly as a nightingale ; 

Say, that she frown, — I'll say she looks as clear 

As morning roses newly wash'd with dew ; 

Say, she be mute, and will not speak a word, — 

Then, I'll commend her volubility, 

And say — she uttereth piercing eloquence ; 



REMEDIES- 
PRUDENT 



„ —DESPE- 
RATE 

„ —HOPELESS 



CLOUDS— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF 



SICKNESS. 

Sickness is catching : 

Before the curing of a strong disease, 
Even in the instant of repair and health, 
The fit is strongest ; evils, that take leave, 
On their departure most of all shew evil : 

vanity of sickness ! fierce extremes, 
In their continuance, will not feel themselves. 

What madness rules in brain-sick men; 

A grave unto a soul ; 
Holding the eternal spirit, against her will, 
In the vile prison of afflicted breath. — 

The wonder is, he hath endured so long : 
He but usurp'd his life. 

1 am not very sick, 
Since I can reason of it. 

Testy sick men, when their deaths be near, 
No news but health from their physician know ; 

Infirmity doth still neglect all office, 
Whereto our health is bound ; 

We are not ourselves, 
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind 
To suffer with the body. 

There is a sickness, 
Which puts some of us in distemper ; 

Those cold ways, 
That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous 
Where the disease is violent : — 

Diseases, desperate grown, 
By desperate appliance are relieved, 

Sure, all's effectless ; yet nothing we'll omit 
That bears recovery's name. 



SIGHTS. 

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish ; 
A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, 
A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, 
A forked mountain, or blue promontory 
With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, 
And mock our eyes with air : 



Taming of the 
Shrew 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream, 



King John. 

Henry VI. Pt.i. 

King yohn. 
King Lear. 
Cymbeline. 
Sonnet 140. 
King Lear. 



Winter's Tale. 



Coriolanus. 



Hamlet. 



Pericles. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



200 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SIGH TS—CContinuedJ . 



PLAY OE POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



GRAND— BE AUTI- 
FUL .. 



HORRIBLE 



SAD— SEEING v. 
HEARING 



TRANSIENT 



„— INSUBSTAN- 
TIAL 



UNNATURAL 



Her own person, 
It beggar'd all description : she did lie 
In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue,) 
O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see, 
The fancy out- work nature; on each side her, 
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, 
With divers colour'd fans, whose wind did seem 
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, 
And what they undid, did. 

Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, 
So many mermaids, tendered her i' the eyes, 
And made their bends adornings : at the helm 
A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle 
Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, 
That yarely frame the office. 

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, 

Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold, 

Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that 

The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; 

Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made 

The water, which they beat, to follow faster, 

As amorous of their strokes. 

Men might say, 
Till this time pomp was single ; but now married 
To one above itself. 

This sight would make him do a desperate turn, 
Yea, curse his better angel from his side, 
And fall to reprobation. 

To see sad sights moves more than hear them told ; 

For then the eye interprets to the ear 
The heavy motion that it doth behold, 

When every part a part of wo doth bear, 

'Tis but a part of sorrow that we hear : 
Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords, 
And sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words. 

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, 
And these are of them : — 

Like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack behind : 

The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead 
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 

As, stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, 
Disasters in the sun ; and the moist star, 
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, 
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. 

Either there is a civil strife in heaven ; 

Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, 

Incenses them to send destruction. 

Against the Capitol I met a lion, 
Who glared upon me, and went surly by, 
Without annoying me : and there were drawn 
Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women, 
Transformed with their fear ; who swore, they saw 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



>> n 



>> » 



Henry VIII. 



Othello. 



Tarquvi. 
Macbeth. 



n. 



v. 



Tempest. 



Hamlet. 



i. 



IV. 



I. 



Julius C&sar. ,, 



201 



CLASSIFICATION. 


SIGHTS — (Continued) . 


PLAY OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


UNNATURAL 


Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets. 
And, yesterday, the bird of night did sit, 
Even at noon-day, upon the market-place, 
Hooting and shrieking. 


Julius Caesar. 


I. 


3 


,, 


When these prodigies 
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say, 
These are their reasons, — They are natural ; — 
For, I believe, they are portentous things 
Unto the climate that they point upon. 


it tt 


» 


>» 


,, 


And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead : 

Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, 

In ranks, and squadrons, and right form of war, 

Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol : 

The noise of battle hurtled in the air, 

Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan ; 

And ghosts did shriek, and squeal about the streets. 


>> >> 


ii. 


2 


,, 


My lord, they say, five moons were seen to-night : 
Four fix'd ; and the fifth did whirl about 
The other four in wondrous motion. 


King John. 


IV. 


» 


WONDERFUL ... 


Have you beheld, 
Or have you read, or heard ? or could you think ? 
Or do you almost think, although you see, 
That you do see? could thought, without this object, 
Form such another ? 


» 


>> 


3 


}} 


Methinks, I see these things with parted eye, 
When every-thing seems double. 


Midsummer 
Night 1 s Dream 


>> 


i 


„ 


Can such things be, 
And overcome us like a summer's cloud, 
Without our special wonder ? 


Macbeth. 


in. 


4 




SILENCE. 








ADMIRATION ... 


I like your silence, it the more shows off 
Your wonder : 


Winter's Tale. 


V. 


3 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Silence is only commendable 
In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


I. 


i 


„ —CONCEIT 


There are a sort of men, whose visages 

Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond ; 

And do a wilful stillness entertain, 

With purpose to be dress'din an opinion 

Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit ; 

As who should say, 1 am Sir Oracle, 

And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark ! 


» >> 


>> 


ji 


„ —FOOLISH 


I do know of these, 
That therefore only are reputed wise, 
For saying nothing; who, I am very sure, 
If they should speak, would almost damn those ears, 
Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools. 


>> » 


>> 


» 


ENFORCED 


My heart is great ; but it must break with silence, 
Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue. 


Richard II. 


II. 


i 


,, 


What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say. 


>> n 


V. 


5 


FLATTERY 


How his silence drinks up this applause I 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


II. 


3 



Z01 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SILENCE— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



GRIEF 


My grief lies all within ; 
And these external manners of lament 
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, 
That swells with silence in the tortured soul ; 


Richard II. 


IV. 


n 


A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue : 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


v. 


,, 


Give sorrow words : the grief that does not speak, 
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. 


Macbeth. 


IV. 


» 


Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, 
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. 


Titus 

Andronicus. 


11. 


HAPPINESS 


Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, 

Brags of his substance, not of ornament : 

They are but beggars that can count their worth ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


tt 


» 


I were but little happy, if I could say how much. — 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


>> 


a 


Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. 


jy tt 


tt 


LOVE 


O, they love least, that let men know their love. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


1. 


j> ... 


His little speaking shews his love but small. 


tt it 


j> 


„ 


What ! gone without a word ! 
Ay, so true love should do : it cannot speak ; 
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. 


» >> 


11. 


MUSIC 


Soft stillness, and the night, 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


v. 


TALKING— AD- 
VICE 


Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice : 

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 


Hamlet. 


1. 


» tt 


Be check'd for silence, 
But never tax'd for speech. 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


tt 


THOUGHT 


I hear, yet say not much, but think the more. 


Henry VI.Pt.3. 


IV 


WELCOME 


Out of this silence, yet, I pick'd a welcome ; 
And in the modesty of fearful duty 
I read as much, as from the rattling tongue 
Of saucy and audacious eloquence. 


Midsum mer 
Night's Dream 


V. 




SIMPLICITY. 






DESCRIPTIVE OF 


I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 
For daws to peck at : 


Othello. 


I. 


tt tt 


I am weaker than a woman's tear, 
Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance ; 
Less valiant than the virgin in the night, 
And skill-less as unpractised infancy. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


J> 


—TRUTH 


Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, 
With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. 


»» tt 


IV. 


>> >> 


While others fish with craft for great opinion, 
I with great truth catch mere simplicity ; 


tt tt 


tt 


» » 


Such harmless creatures have a true respect 
To talk in deeds, while others saucilv 
Promise more speed, but do it leisurely : 
Even so, this pattern of the worn-out age 
Pawn'd honest looks, but laid no words to gage. 


Tarquin. 





203 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SIMPLICITY— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF- 
TRUTH... 

TRUTH— MIS- 
CALLED 



APPEARANCE- 
VIRTUE. 

BAD— WORSE . 



CONSCIENCE- 
FEAR. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
—WORLD 

ENFORCED 

FAME 

GOODLIVING— 

PROTEST 



GROSS— PLEA- 

SURES 



HABITUAL 



HEARING— ONE'S 
OWN 

HYPOCRISY 



» 

IMPUDENCE- 
DENIAL 



Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity, 
In least, speak most, to my capacity. 

Simple truth's miscall'd simplicity. . 



If 



SIN. 

There is no vice so simple, but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 

One sin, I know, another doth provoke ; 
Murder's as near to lust, as flame to smoke. 

To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, 
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss ; 
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 

The primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. 

Bitter shame hath spoiled the sweet world's taste, 
That it yields nought but shame and bitterness. 

Our compell'd sins 
Stand more for number than accompt. 

Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed ; 

If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! 
to be old and merry be a sin, then many an host, that I 
know, is damned : if to be fat be to be hated, then 
Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. 

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek ? 

A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy ; 
Who buys a minute's mirth, to wail a week ? 

Or sells eternity, to get a toy ? 

The sweets we wish for turn to loathed sours, 
Even in the moment that we call them ours. 

Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade : 
Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd : 

When we in our viciousness grow hard, 

. . . . The wise gods seal our eyes ; 
In our own filth drop our clear judgments ; make us 
Adore our errors ; laugh at us, while we strut 
To our confusion. 

Few love to hear the sins they love to act ; 

How courtesy would seem to cover sin ! 
When what is done is like an hypocrite, 
The which is good in nothing but in sight. 

Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint ; 

O, what authority and shew of truth 
Can cunning sin cover itself withal ! 

I ne'er heard yet, 
That any of these bolder vices wanted 
Less impudence to gainsay what they did, 
Than to perform it first. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 

Sonnet 66. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Pericles. 



Hamlet. 
Macbeth. 

King yohn. 

Measure for 
Measure. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



HenrylF.Pt.i 



Tarquin. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 

Pericles. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Winter's Tale. 



in. 



IV. 

ii. 



in. 



ii. 



m. 



ii. 



in. 



in. 



i. 



in. 



IV. 



III. 



204 



- 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SIN — (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



IRRESISTIBLE . 

MERCY 

NOT-TRANSMIT- 
TED 

OATH 
OPPORTUNITY . 



» 



PARDON— BAS- 
TARDY 



POISON— TREA- 
SON 

PRIVILEGED 

REPEATED 



RICH— POOR 



SUFFERERS— ONE 



TEMPTATION 



UNIVERSAL 



VIRTUE— MISAP- 
PLIED... 

„ —PATCHED 



What rein can hold licentious wickedness, 
When down the hill he holds his fierce career. 



Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. 

Crimes, like lands, 
Are not inherited. 

It is great sin, to swear unto a sin ; 
But greater sin, to keep a sinful oath. 

When Truth and virtue have to do with thee, 
A thousand crosses keep them from thy aid ; 

They buy thy help : but Sin ne'er gives a fee, 
He gratis comes ; and thou art well appay'd, 
As well to hear as grant what he hath said. 

Whoever plots the sin, thou 'point' st the season; 
'Tis thou that spurn' st at right, at law, at reason ; 
And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him, 
Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him. 

It were as good 
To pardon him, that hath from nature stolen 
A man already made, as to remit 
Their saucy sweetness, that do coin Heaven's image, 
In stamps that are forbid : 

Poison and treason are the hands of sin, 
Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame: 

Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, 

Vice repeated, is like the wand'ring wind, 
Blows dust in others' eyes, to spread itself ; 
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, 
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear : 
To stop the air would hurt them. 

Plate sin with gold, 
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : 
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. 

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear : 
Robes, and furr'd gowns hide all. 

For one's offence why should so many fall, 
To plague a private sin in general ? 

Why should the private pleasure of some one 
Become the public plague of many mo ? 

Let sin, alone committed, light alone 

Upon his head that hath transgressed so ; 
Let guiltless souls be freed from guilty wo ; 

Most dangerous 
Is that temptation, that doth goad us on 
To sin in loving virtue : 

He's no man on whom perfections wait, 
That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate. 

All is oblique : 
There's nothing level in our cursed natures, 
But direct villainy. 

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied ; 
And vice sometime's by action dignified. 

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue ; 



Henry V. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



Henry VI. Pt. 2 



Tar quin. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Pericles. 
King John. 



Pericles. 



King Lear. 



Tar quin. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Pericles. 

Timon of 
Athens. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Twelfth Night 



111. 



11. 



IV. 



11. 

1. 

IV. 

II. 
1. 



205 



CLASSIFICATION. 


SIN — (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


WOMEN v. MEN- 
DISGUISING ... 


Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, 
Poor women's faces are their own faults' books. 


Tarquin. 




• 




SINNERS. 






; 


ALL 


Who lives, that's not 
Depraved, or depraves ? who dies, that bears 
Not one spurn to their graves of their friend's gift ? 


Timon of 
Athens. 


i. 


2 


CONFESSION 


Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator ; 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


in. 


it 


,, 


What simple thief brags of his own attaint ? 


a )> 


i) 


)i 


DEGREES 


Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd, 
When others are more wicked ; not being the worst, 
Stands to some rank of praise. — 


King Lear. 


ii. 


4 


DESPERATE 


. Wisdom sees, those men 
Blush not in actions blacker than the night, 
Will shun no course to keep them from the light. 


Pericles. 


i. 


i 


OBSTINATE 


You are one of those, that will not serve God, if the 
devil bid you. 


Othello. 


>> 


>j 


OPINIONS... 


Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile : 
Filths savour but themselves. 


King Lear. 


IV. 


2 


WOMEN— MEN ... 


Women may fall, when there's no strength in men. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


ii. 


3 


WRONGED 


I am a man, 
More sinn'd against, than sinning. 


King Lear. 


in. 


2 




SINGING. 








BAD 


Tax not so bad a voice 
To slander music any more than once. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


ii. 


3 


» 


I had rather be a kitten and cry mew 

Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; 


Henry IF.Pt.i. 


in. 


i 


» 


An he had been a dog, that should have howled thus, 
they would have hanged him : 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


ii. 


i 


„ 


I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what 
plague could have come after it. 


» n 


» 


ii 


DEATH 


This pale faint swan, 
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death ; 
And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings 
His soul and body to their lasting rest. 


King John. 


V. 


1 


» 


I will play the swan, 
And die in music ; — 


Othello. 


1) 


2 


EXCUSES 


Hawking, or spitting, or saying we are hoarse ; which 
are the only prologues to a bad voice ? 


As You Like It. 


11 


3 


GOOD 


She sings like one immortal, and she dances 
As goddess-like to her admired lays : 


Pericles. 


11 


Go- 


» 


When you sing, 
I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; 
Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, 
To sing them too : 


Winter's Tale. 


IV. 


wer 
3 



206 



CLASSIFICATION. 


SINGING— (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


SLEEP 


She will sing the song that pleaseth you, 
And on your eye-lids crown the god of sleep, 
Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness : 
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep, 
As is the difference betwixt day and night, 
The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team 
Begins his golden progress in the east. 


Henry IF.Pt.i. 


III. 


I 




SLANDER. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


The shrug, the hum, or ha ; these petty brands, 
That calumny doth use : — 


Winter's Tale. 


II. 


it 


>> tt 


Slander, 
Whose sting is sharper than the sword's ; 


it tt 


it 


3 


tt » 


Slander, — 
Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, 
As level as the cannon to his blank, 
Transports his poison'd shot, — 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


1 


tt >» 


Slander lives upon succession ; 
For ever housed, where it once gets possession. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


III. 


>» 


FOOLS 


There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do 
nothing but rail ; 


Twelfth Night. 


I. 


5 


FIRENDSHIP 


One doth not know, 
How much an ill word may empoison liking. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


III. 


1 


LOVE 


The best way is, to slander him 
With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent, — 
Three things that women highly hold in hate. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


it 


2 


UNIVERSAL 


'Tis slander, 
Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue 
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath 
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie 
All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, 
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave 
This viperous slander enters. — 


Cymbeline. 


tt 


4 


VIRTUE 


Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : 


Hamlet. 


I. 


3 


„ ... . . 


Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not 
escape calumny. 


a 


III. 


1 


tt ••• 


I see, the jewel best enamelled 
Will lose his beauty ; and though gold 'bides still, 
That others touch, yet often touching will 
Wear gold ; and so no man that hath a name, 
But falsehood and corruption doth it shame. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


II. 


tt 


» 


So thou be good, slander doth but approve 

Thy worth the greater, being woo'd of time ; 
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love. 


Sonnet 70. 






„ —GREAT- 
NESS... 


No might nor greatness in mortality 
Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny 
The whitest virtue strikes : What king so strong, 
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ? — 


Measure for 
Measure. 


III. 


2 


tt tt 


If I am traduced by tongues, which neither know 
My faculties, nor person, yet will be 
The chronicles of my doing, — let me say, 
'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake 
That virtue must go through. 


Henry VIII. 


I. 


tt 



207 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SLANDERERS. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





SLANDERERS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, 
That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander, 
Go antickly, and shew outward bideousness, 
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, 
How they might hurt their enemies, 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


v. 


I 


» »> 


A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint, 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


1. 


3 


}> it 


I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, 
Some busy and insinuating rogue, 
Some cogging cozening slave, to get some office, 
Have not devis'd this slander ; 


Othello. 


IV. 


2 


PUNISHMENT ... 


O, heaven, that such companions thou 'dst unfold ; 
And put in every honest hand a whip, 
To lash the rascals naked through the world, 
Even from the east to the west ! 


)> 


>> 


i) 


REBUKE 


I am that I am; and they that level 
At my abuses, reckon up their own : 


Sonnet 121. 






,, 


Thou wrong' st a gentleman, who is as far 
From thy report, as thou from honour ; 


Cymbeline. 


I. 


1 


SIN 


If thou dost slander her, and torture me, 
Never pray more : abandon all remorse : 
On horror's head, horrors accumulate : 
Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed, 
For nothing canst thou to damnation add, 
Greater than that. 


Othello. 


III. 


3 




SLEEP. 


* 






CARE 


Where care lodges, sleep will never lie ; 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


» 


„ 


Now leaden slumber with life's strength doth fight ; 

And every one to rest themselves betake, 

Save thieves, and cares, and troubled minds that wake. 


Tarquin. 






DEATH— IMAGE... 


Her hair, like golden threads, play'd with her breath ; 
modest wantons ! wanton modesty ! 

Shewing life's triumphs in the map of death, 
And death's dim look in life's mortality : 
Each in her sleep themselves so beautify, 

As if between them twain there were no strife, 

But that life lived in death, and death in life. 


» 






» >> 


O sleep, thou ape of death, 


Cymbeline. 


II. 


2 


» >> 


Awake ! 
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, 


Macbeth. 


>> 


3 


»> >» 


The sleeping and the dead, 
Are but as pictures : 


» 


>> 


2 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. — 


>> 


)) 


>> 


» >> 


Sleep, gentle sleep, 
Nature's soft nurse, 


Henry IF.Pt.2. 


III. 


I 


» »> 


Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, 


King Lear. 


IV. 


4 



208 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SLEEP— fContinued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
SLEEPY 


I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


IV. 


I 


KING— PEASANT 


Happy low, lie down ; 
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 


Henry IV.Pt.2. 


in. 


It 


LABOUR 


As fast lock'd up in sleep, as guiltless labour 
When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones : 


Measure for 
Measure. 


IV. 


2 


„ —IDLENESS 


Weariness 
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth 
Finds the down pillow hard. — 


Cymheline. 


in. 


6 


LOSS 


You lack the season of all natures, sleep. 


Macbeth. 


n 


4 


,, 


I do come with words as medicinal as true, 
Honest as either, to purge him of that humour 
That presses him from sleep. 


Winter's Tale. 


II. 


3 


»» 


Sleep, gentle sleep, 
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, 
And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


III. 


i 


RICH— POOR 


Why rather, sleep liest thou in smoky cribs, 

Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 

And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; 

Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, . . . ? 


>> » 


tt 


n 


tt tt 


O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile, 
In loathsome beds ; and leavest the kingly couch, 
A watch-case, or a common 'larum bell ? 


tt >> 


it 


>y 


n tt 


'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, 

The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, 

The inter -tissued robe of gold and pearl, 

The farced title running 'fore the king, 

The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp 

That beats upon the high shore of this world, — 

No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, 

Not all these, laid in bed majestical, 

Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, 

Who, with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, 

Gets him to rest cramm'd with distressful bread ; 


Henry V. 


IV. 


tt 


SOMNAMBULISM 


A great perturbation in nature ! to receive at once the 
benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching. 


Macleth. 


V. 


tt 


SOMNAMBULIST... 


I have known those which have walked in their sleep 
who have died holily in their beds. 


a 


11 


tt 


SORROW 


Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, 
Steal me a while from mine own company. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


III. 


2 


TALKING 


There are a kind of men so loose of soul, 
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs ; 


Othello. 


11 


3 


TOOTHACHE 


He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache : 


Cymheline. 


V. 


4 


TROUBLE— LOSS 


Not poppy, nor mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, 
Which thou, ow'dst yesterday. 


Othello. 


III. 


3 


YOUTH 


Where unbruised youth -with unstufF'd brain 

Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign : 


Romeo and 
Juliet . 


II. 


tt 


,, 


Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber : 
Thou hast no figures, nor no fantasies, 
Which busy care draws in the brains of men ; 
Therefore thou sleep' st so sound. 


Julius Caesar. 


11 


i 



209 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SOCIETY. 



PLAT OB, POEM. ACT. SC. 





SOCIETY. 


- 






DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
CONDITION ... 


There is scarce truth enough alive, to make societies 
secure ; but security enough, to make fellowships 
accursed: much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the 
world. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


in. 


2 


RAILERS 


Nay, an you begin to rail on society once, I am sworn 
not to give regard to you. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


i. 


11 


UNSOCIABLE 


Society is no comfort 
To one not sociable : 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


11 




Leave me alone, 
For I must think of that, which company 
Will not be friendly to. 


Herny VIII. 


V. 


I 




SOLDIERS. 








DEATH— PRE- 
PARATION 


Should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man 
in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience ; and 
dying so, death is to him advantage ; or not dying, the 
time was blessedly lost, wherein such preparation was 
gained : 


Henry V. 


IV. 


I 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


He, that is truly dedicate to war, 
Hath no self-love ; nor he, that loves himself, 
Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, 
The name of valour. — 


Henry VI.Pt.2. 


V. 


2 


11 » 


To be tender-minded 

Does not become a sword. — 


King Lear. 


11 


3 


11 11 


Before him 
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears ; 


Coriolanus. 


II. 


T 


11 11 


A soldier 
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, 
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth : 


As You Like It. 


11 


7 


» » 


Courtiers as free, as debonair, unarm'd, 
As bending angels ; that's their fame in peace : 
But when they would seem soldiers, they have galls, 
Good arms, strong joints, true swords : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


I. 


3 


GENERALS 


When that the general is not like the hive, 
To whom the foragers shall all repair, 
What honey is expected? 


ii ii 


11 


>» 


LOVE 


May that soldier a mere recreant prove, 
That means not, hath not, or is not in love ! 


>} ii 


11 


ii 


MARRIAGE 


A soldier is better accommodated, than with a wife. 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


III. 


2 


PAY 


Go to the wars, would you ? where a man may serve 
seven years for the loss of a leg, and have not money 
enough in the end to buy him a wooden one ? 


Pericles. 


IV. 


6 


SUPERIORS— DE- 
PENDENCE 


Soldiers, when their captain once doth yield, 
Basely fly, and dare not stay the field. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 








SORROW (see grief). 









210 



CLASSIFICATION-. 



SOULS. 



PLAT OR POE3I. ACT. SC. 





SOULS. 








BODY 


Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, 

Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, 
Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, 

Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? 
Why so large cost, having so short a lease, 

Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? 
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, 

Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? 
Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, 

And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; 
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; 

Within be fed, without be rich no more : 


Sonnet 146. 






BRAIN— HABITA- 


His pure brain 








TION ... 


(Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house) 


King John. 


v. 


7 


DESTINATION ... 


Mount, mount, my soul ! thy seat is up on high ; 










Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward here to die. 


Richard II. 


„ 


„ —DESCRIP- 


Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand, 


Antony and 






TIVE OF 


And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze: 


Cleopatra. 


IV. 12 


„— UNKNOWN 


To die, and go we know not where ; 
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; 
This sensible warm motion to become 
A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit 
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 
In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; 
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, 
And blown with restless violence round about 
The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst 
Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts 


Measure for 








Imagine howling ! — 


Measure. 


in. 


I 


DESTRUCTION- 


I would not kill thy unprepared spirit ; 








DISCLAIMING 


No, — heaven forfend ! — I would not kill thy soul. 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


MUSIC 


There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, 
But in his motion like an angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : 
Such harmony is in immortal souls ; 
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay 


Merchant of 








Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. — 


Venice. 


>> 


I 


SALVATION 


All the souls that were, were forfeit once; 

And He, that might the vantage best have took, 


Measure for 








Found out the remedy : 


Measure. 


II. 


2 




SPEECH (es). 

(SEE ALSO TALK AND WORDS.) 








BAD— DESCRIP- 


His speech was like a tangled chain, — nothing impaired, 


Midsummer 






TIVE OF... 


but all disordered. 


Nighfs Dream 


V. 


I 


BOLD 


I know not by what power I am made bold, 
Nor how it may concern my modesty 










In such a presence here to plead my thoughts : 


>> >> 


I. 


>> 


,, ... ... 


I'll use that tongue I have ! if wit flow from it, 
As boldness from my bosom, let it not be doubted 










I shall do good. 


Winter's Tale. 


II. 


2 



211 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SPEECH— ( Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



BOLD 



BLUNT 
DEEDS 
DYING MEN 

LOSS 



MEANING 

PERSUASION— BE- 
LIEF.. 



PLAIN 



RELUCTANT- 



NEWS 



SHARP 



SILENCE 



SOFT-SLOW— 

MODEST 

TIMIDITY 



TRUTH 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



If I prove honey-mouth'd, let my tongue blister, 
And never to my red-look' d anger be 
The trumpet any more. — 

No, I will speak as liberal as the air : 

Let heaven, and men, and devils, let them all, 

All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak. 

Rude am I in my speech, 
And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; 

'Tis a kind of good deed, to say well : 
And yet words are no deeds. 

The tongues of dying men 
Enforce attention like deep harmony : 
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain ; 
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. 

He, that no more must say, is listen'd more 

Than they, whom youth and ease have taught to glose; 

That delightful engine of her thoughts, 
That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence, 
Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage ; 
Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung 
Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear ! 

Things are often spoke, and seldom meant : 

May'st thou have the spirit of persuasion, and he the 
ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may move, and 
what he hears may be believed, 

I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, 
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, 
To stir men's blood : I only speak right on ; 
I tell you that, which you yourselves do know ; 

I play the torturer, by small and small, 

To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken : — 

Forbear sharp speeches to her: She's a lady 
So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, 
And strokes death to her. 

Be checked for silence, 
But never tax'd for speech. 

Speak less than thou knowest, 

Give thy thoughts no tongue, 
Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 

Soft-slow tongue, true mark of modesty. 

More I could tell, but more I dare not say : 
The text is old, the orator too green. 

It is not enough to speak, but to speak true. 



SPORT. 

There's no such sport, as sport by sport o'erthrown ; 

That sport best pleases, that doth least know how : 
Where zeal strives to content, and the contents 
Die in the zeal of them which it presents, 
Their form confounded makes most form in mirth ; 
When great things labouring perish in their birth. 



Winter's Tale. 



Othello. 



Henry Y1II. 



Richard II. 



» » 



Titus 

Andronicus, 

Henry Yl.Pt.2. 



Henry JF.Pt.i 

Julius Caesar. 
Richard IL 



Cymleline. 

AWs Well That 
Ends Well. 



King Lear. 



Hamlet. 



Tarquin. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 



Love' sLal our' s 
Lost. 



ii. 



v. 



in. 



ii. 



m. 



i. 



in. 



i. 



212 



CLASSIFICATION. 



S PORT— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



sc. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF— 



LADIES 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



LOVERS 



DESCRIPTIVE OF- 
LAND. 



—SEA 



For 'tis the sport to have the engineer 
Hoist with his own petar : 

Thus men may grow wiser every day ! it is the first 
time that ever I heard, breaking of ribs was sport for 
ladies. 



Hamlet. 



in. 



SPRING. 

When daisies pied, and violets blue, 
And lady-smocks all silver- white, 

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, 

Do paint the meadows with delight, 

The cuckoo then, on every tree, 

Mocks married men, for thus sings he, 
Cuckoo ; 

Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, 

Unpleasing to a married ear ! 

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, 

When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, 
And maidens bleach their summer smocks, 

The cuckoo then, on every tree, 

Mocks married men, for thus sings he, 
Cuckoo ; 

Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, 

Unpleasing to a married ear ! 

When daffodils begin to peer, — 

With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, — 
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year ; 
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. 

Sweet lovers love the spring. 



As You Like It. \ I 



STORMS. 

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth 

In strange eruptions : oft the teeming earth 

Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and vex'd 

By the imprisoning of unruly wind 

Within her womb ; which, for enlargement striving, 

Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down 

Steeples, and moss-grown towers. 

Thou God of this great vast, rebuke these surges, 
Which wash both heaven and hell ; and thou that hast 
Upon the winds command, bind them in brass, 
Having call'd them from the deep ! O, still thy deaf'ning, 
Thy dreadful thunders ; gently quench thy nimble, 
Sulphurous flashes ! — 

The fire, and cracks 
Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune 
Seem'd to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble ; 
Yes, his dread trident shake. 

The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, 
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, 
Dashes the fire out. 



Love'' s Labour'' s 
Lost. 



Winter's Talc. 
As You Like It. 



IV. 

v. 



HenrylV.Pt.x. 



Pericles. 



Tempest. 



in. 



213 



CLASSIFICATION. 



STORMS— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. 



ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF- 
SEA . 



-SIGNS 



SUDDEN— SHORT 



HONEST .. 
HORRIBLE 



INTERESTING 
LOVE 

STRANGE ... 

WINTER— SAD 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



What obscured light the heavens did grant, 
Did but convey unto our fearful minds 
A doubtful warrant of immediate death ; 

I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds 
Have rived the knotty oaks ; and I have seen 
The ambitious ocean swell, and rage, arid foam, 
To be exalted with the threat'nine clouds : 
But never till to-night, never till now, 
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. 

The chiding billow seems to pelt the clouds ; 

The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous main, 

Seems to cast water on the burning bear, 

And quench the guards of th' ever fix'd pole : 

We often see, against some storm, 
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, 
The bold winds speechless, and the orb below 
As hush as death : anon the dreadful thunder 
Doth rend the region : 

The southern wind 
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes ; 
And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, 
Foretells a tempest, and a blustering day. 

Small showers last long, but sudden 
Storms are short; 



STORIES (tales). 

An honest tale speeds best been plainly told. 

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word 

Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; 

Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres : 

Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 

And each particular hair to stand an-end, 

Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : 

Your tale, Sir, would cure deafness. 

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver 
Of my whole course of love ; 

Like an old tale still ; which will have matter to re- 
hearse, though credit be asleep, and not an ear open : 

A sad tale 's best for winter ; 



STRUMPETS. 

O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, 
That give a coasting welcome ere it comes, 
And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts 
To every ticklish reader 1 set them down 
For sluttish spoils of opportunity, 
And daughters of the game. 

There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, 
Nay, her foot speaks : her wanton spirits look out 
At every joint and motive of her body. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 


I. 


Julius Ccesar. 


t> 


Othello. 


ii. 


Hamlet. 


>> 


Henry IF.Pt.i. 


v. 


Richard II. 


ii. 


Richard 111. 


IV. 



Hamlet. 
Tempest. 

Othello. 

H inter's Tale. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



v. 
ii. 



IV. 



214 



CLASSIFICATION. 


STRUMPETS— (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


'Tis the strumpet's plague, 
To beguile many, and be beguiled by one ; — 


Othello. 


IV. 


1 


» >> 


Behold yon simpering dame, 

Whose face between her forks presageth snow ; 

That minces virtue, and does shake the head 

To hear of pleasure's name: 

The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goest to 't 

With a more riotous appetite. 


King Lear. 


5) 


6 


>> >t 


Down from the waist they are centaurs, though women 
all above : but to the girdle do the gods inherit, beneath is 
all the fiends' : 





)> 


>> 




SUICIDE. 








BONDAGE 


Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius : 
Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong ; 
Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat : 


Julius Ccesar. 


I. 


3 


... 


Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, 
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, 
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit ; 
But life, being weary of these worldly bars, 
Never lacks power to dismiss itself. 





>> 


>> 


COWARDLY 


I do find it cowardly and vile, 

For fear of what might fall, so to prevent 

The time of life : — 


>> 


V. 


i 


DEATH— FEAR ... 


He that cuts off twenty years of life, 
Cuts off so many years of fearing death. 


» 


III. 


>> 


„ —LIFE? ... 


To be, or not to be, that is the question : — 
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And, by opposing, end them ? 


Hamlet. 


>> 





DIVINE— PROHIBI- 
TION... 


O that the Everlasting had not fix'd 
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! 


>> 


I. 


2 





Against self-slaughter 
There is a prohibition so divine, 
That cravens my weak hand. 


Cymbeline. 


III. 


4 


DROWNING 


If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way 
than drowning. 


Othello. 


I. 


3 


FEAR— FUTURE ... 


Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, 

The insolence of office, and the spurns 

That patient merit of the unworthy takes, 

When he himself might his quietus make 

With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, 

To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; 

But that the dread of something after death, — 

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn 

No traveller returns, — puzzles the will; 

And makes us rather bear those ills we have, 

Than fly to others that we know not of ? 


Hamlet. 


III. 


i 


FOLLY 


Why should I play the Roman fool, and die 
On mine own sword ? 


Macbeth. 


V. 


7 



215 



CLASSIFICATION. 


SUICIDE— CContinued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


GREATNESS 


It is great 
To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; 
Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change ; 
Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug, 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


V. 


2 


LIFE— MISERABLE 


I cannot tell, what you and other men 
Think of this life ; but, for my single self, 
I had as lief not be, as live to be 
In awe of such a thing as I myself. 


Julius Cazsar. 


I. 


it 


>» )> 


It is silliness to live, when to live is a torment : and 
then have we a prescription to die, when death is our 
physician. 


Othello. 


» 


3 


LOVE— DISCLAIM. 
ING ... 


Ere I would say, I would drown myself for the love of 
a Guinea-hen, I would change my humanity with a 
baboon. 


t> 


)> 


>> 


MEANS— SEEKING 


I live, and seek in vain 
^ Some happy mean to end a hapless life. 


Tarquin. 






RESOLVE 


Here 

Will I set up my everlasting rest ; 

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars 

From this world-wearied flesh. — 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


v. 


)> 


SIN? 


All's but naught ; 
Patience is sottish ; and impatience does 
Become a dog that's mad : Then is it sin, 
To rush into the secret house of death, 
Ere death dare come to us ? — 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


IV. 


12 




(the) SUN. 








RISE— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 


Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, 
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger ; 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream 


III. 


2 


» >> 


How bloodily the sun begins to peer 
Above yon husky hill ! the day looks pale 
At his distemperature. 


Henry IKPt.i. 


V. 


I 


SET 


The world's comforter, with weary gait, 
His day's hot task hath ended in the west : 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






» »> 


Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set ; 
How ugly night comes breathing at his heels : 
Even with the vail and darking cf the sun, 
To close the day up, 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


» 


8 


—FLOWERS 


The earth doth weep, the sun being set, 
Each flower moisten'd like a melting eye ; 


Tarquin. 






„ —SIN 

» 


When the searching eye of heaven is hid 
Behind the globe that lights the lower world, 
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen, 
In murders, and in outrage, bloody here ; 
But when, from under this terrestrial ball, 
He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines, 
And darts his light through every guilty hole, 
Then murders, treasons, and detested sins, 
The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs, 
Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves . . . 


Richard II. 


III. 


2 


„ —WEATHER 


The weary sun hath made a golden set, 
And, by the bright track of his fiery car, 
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. — 


Richard III. 


V. 


3 



2i6 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SUN — (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



SIN .. 



SPLENDOUR 



UNIVERSAL- 
COMFORTS 

„ —HOMAGE 



COMPETENCY 

NECESSARIES 

RESTRAINT 
RIDICULOUS 



SWEETS— NAU- 
SEA. 

WANT 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



O eye of eyes, 
Why pry'st thou through my window ? leave thy peeping ; 
Mock with thy tickling beams eyes that are sleeping ; 
Brand not my forehead with thy piercing light, 
For day hath nought to do what's done by night. 

The glorious sun 
Stays in his course, and plays the alchymist ; 
Turning, with splendour of his precious eye, 
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold : 

O thou clear god, and patron of all light, 

From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow 

The beauteous influence that makes him bright, 

All places that the eye of Heaven visits, 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : 

Lo, in the orient when the gracious light 
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye 

Doth homage to his new-appearing sight, 
Serving with looks his sacred majesty : 



SUPERFLUITIES (surfeits). 

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency 
lives longer. 

Reason not the need : our basest beggars 
Are in the poorest thing superfluous : 

Allow not nature more than nature needs, 
Man's life is cheap as beast's : 

As surfeit is the father of much fast, 
So every scope by the immoderate use 
Turns to restraint : 

To guard a title that was rich before, 

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 

To throw a perfume on the violet, 

To smooth the ice, or add another hue 

Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 

Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

A surfeit of the sweetest things 
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings — 

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that 
starve with nothing : 



SUPERSTITION. 

No natural exhalation in the sky, 
No scope of nature, no distemper'd day, 
No common wind, no customed event, 
But they will pluck away his natural cause, 
And call them meteors, prodigies, and signs, 
Abortives, presages, and tongues of Heaven. 

Possess'd with humours, full of idle dreams ; 
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear 



Tarquin. 



King John. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

Richard II. 



Sonnet 7. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



King Lear. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



in. 



King John. 

Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



King John 



11. 



IV. 



11. 



in. 



iv. 2 



217 



CLASSIFICATION. 



SUPERSTITION— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DREAMS ... 
PROVIDENCE 



BEAUTY... 
COWARDLY 

EXPERIENCE 

GOOD MEN— FREE 

GUILT 

JUSTIFIED 

QUICK 



DANGEROUS 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



He is superstitious grown of late ; 
Quite from the main opinion he held once 
Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies : 

You are too senseless obstinate, 
Too ceremonious and traditional : 

Look, how the world's poor people areamaz'd 
At apparitions, signs, and prodigies, 
Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gaz'd, 
Infusing them with dreadful prophecies : 

For his dreams, I wonder he's so fond 
To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers ; 

We defy augury ; there is a special providence'in the 
fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come ; if it be 
not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will 
come : the readiness is all : 



SUSPICION. 

The ornament of beauty is suspect, 

A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. 

I hold it cowardice 
To rest mistrustful, where a noble heart 
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love ; 

The bird, that hath been limed in a bush, 
' With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush : 

Suspect still comes, where an estate is least. 

His nature is so far from doing harms, 
That he suspects none ; 

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding- fresh, 

And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, 

But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter ? 

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath ! 



SYCOPHANTS. 

Look, when he fawns, he bites ; and when he bites, 
His venom tooth will rankle to the death ; 

Silken, sly, insinuating Jacks ? 

Flatter, and speak fair, 
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog, 
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, 

Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, 
Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,- 
That smiles his cheek in yours, and knows the trick 
To make my lady laugh when she's disposed, — 

Silly ducking observants, 
That stretch their duties nicely. 



Julius Ccesar. 
Richard III. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 

Richard III. 



Hamlet. 



Sonnet 70. 



Henry VI.Pt.$. iv 



11. 



in. 



Tim on of 
Athens. 



King Lear. 
Henry VI.Pt.$. 

Henry FI.Pt.2. 
HenryJV.Pt.2. 



Richard III. 



Love'' 's Labour' 's 
Lost. 

King Lear. 



IV. 



in. 

1. 



11. 



218 



CLASSIFICATION. 


bYUU^MAJN lb — (Uontinueaj. 


rLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour 
Lose all and more, by paying too much rent ; 

For compound sweet foregoing simple savour, 
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent ? 


Sonnet 125. 








TALENTS. 








DOUBTFUL 


Your capacity 
Is of that nature, that to your huge store 
Wise things seem foolish, and rich things but poor. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


v. 


2 


LITTLE— DE- 
SCRIPTIVE OF... 


Your abilities are too infant-like, for doing much alone. 


CorioLanus. 


11. 


I 


NATURE 


Spirits are not finely touch'd, 
But to fine issues : nor nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor, 
Both thanks and use. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


1. 


>> 


,, ... 


Nature is fine in love : and, where 'tis fine, 
It sends some precious instance of itself 
After the thing it loves. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


5 


PERVERTED 


When these so noble benefits shall prove 
Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt, 
They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly 
Than ever they were fair. 


Henry VIII. 


l. 


2 




TALK. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
SMALL... 


(SEE ALSO "SPEECH" " WORDS.") 

This bald disjointed chat . . . 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


1. 


3 


>> » 


We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. 


Hamlet. 


V. 


i 


„— VERBOSITY 


Zounds ! I was never so bethump'd with words, 
Since I first call'd my brother's father, dad. 


King yohn. 


II. 


2 


DISMAL 


Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs ; 
Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes 
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. 
Let's choose executors, and talk of wills : 


Richard II. 


III. 


>) 


PLEASANT 


Your fair discourse hath been as sugar, 
Making the hard way sweet and delectable. 


H » 


II. 


3 


»f *•• 


Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






WANTON 


Mine ears that to your wanton talk attended, 
Do burn themselves for having so offended. 


»> >> 






» ... ... 


By our ears our hearts oft tainted be : 


Tarquin. 






WOMEN— GRIEF... 


Grief hath two tongues, and never woman yet 
Could rule them both, without ten women's wit. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 








TALKERS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
GREAT 


Our ears are cudgell'd ; not a word of his, 
But buffets better than a fist . . . 


King John. 


II. 


2 



219 



CLASSIFICATION. 



TALKERS— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 
—GREAT 



DOERS 
SLEEP 

TEDIOUS 



WEDLOCK... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF- 
DIFFICULT 

—EASY.. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
„ BELIEF... 

—FALSE 



PRECEPT— PRAC- 
TICE. 



A gentleman, .... that loves to hear himself talk : 
and will speak more in a minute, than he will stand to in 
a month. 



Thus he his special nothing ever prologues. 

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing . . . 

He were an excellent man, that were made just in the 
mid-way between him and Benedick : the one is too like an 
image, and says nothing ; and the other, too like my 
lady's eldest son, evermore tattling. 

They have been at a great feast of languages, and 
stolen the scraps. 

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than 
the staple of his argument. 

Talkers are no good doers ; 

There are a kind of men so loose of soul, 
That in their sleep will mutter their affairs ; 

He's as tedious 
As is a tired horse, a railing wife; 
Worse than a smoky house : — I had rather live 
With cheese and garlic, in a windmill, far, 
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me, 
In any summer-house in Christendom. 

Thou wilt be like a lover presently, 
And tire the hearer with a book of words : 

If they were but a week married they would talk them- 
selves mad. 



TASKS. 



The task he undertakes, 
Is — numb'ring sands, and drinking oceans dry ; 

All difficulties are but easy when they are known. 



TEACHERS (teaching). 

He that will believe all that they say, shall never be 
saved by half that they do : 

Poor fools 
Believe false teachers : Though those, that are betrayed, 
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor 
Stands in worse case of woe. 

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 
Show the steep and thorny way to heaven ; 
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, 
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, 
And recks not his own read. 

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, 
than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. 



Romeo and 
jFuliet. 

AWs Well That 
Ends Well. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



Much Ado 
About Nothvig 

Love's Labour's 
Lost. 

Richard III. 
Othello. 



Henry IF.Pt.i. 

Much Ado 
About Nothing. 



Richard II. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Cymbeline. 



Hamlet. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



ii. 



n. 



n 

I. 



III. 



II. 



II. 



IV. 



III. 



I. 



22Q 



CLASSIFICATION. 


TEACHERS— (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


PRECEPT— PRAC- 
TICE... 


If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, 
chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, 
princes' palaces. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


1. 


2 


>> >> 


It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : 


ft >> 


>> 


>> 




TEARS (weeping). 








BIRTH 


When we are born, we cry, that we are come 
To this great stage of fools ; — 


King Lear. 


IV. 


6 


BITTER 


I must weep, 
But they are cruel tears : 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


DECEIT 


What a hell of witchcraft lies 
In the small orb of one particular tear ? 


Lover's Com- 
plaint. 






„ —MEN ... 


Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, 
For villany is not without such rheum ; 
And he, long traded in it, makes it seem 
Like rivers of remorse and innocency. 


King yohn. 


IV. 


3 


„ —WOMEN 


If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, 
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile : — 


Othello. 


5> 


1 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Her salt tears fell from her, and softened the stones ; 


y} 


)» 


3 


j> >> 


Let me wipe off this honourable dew, 
That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks : 


King yohn. 


V. 


2 


H >> 


Heaven-moving pearls . . . 


>> 


II. 


1 


>> n 


What's the matter, 
That this distemper'd messenger of wet, 
The many-colour' d Iris, rounds thine eye ? 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


I. 


3 


>> >> 


The April's in his eyes. It is love's spring, 
And these the showers to bring it on. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


III. 


2 


>> >) 


Melting pearl, which some call tears : 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


J> 


1 


>> >> 


Eye-offending brine : 


Twelfth Night. 


I. 


» 


>> >> 


Through the flood-gates breaks the silver rain. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






„ —CHECKED 


Her tears began to turn their tide, 
Being prison'd in her eye, like pearls in glass : 


n >» 






>i >> 


Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring ; 
Your tributary drops belong to wo, 
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


III. 


2 


GRATITUDE 


I have a kind soul, that would give you thanks, 
And knows not how to do it, but with tears. 


Ki7ig yohn. 


V. 


7 


GRIEF— EXPRESS- 
ING ... 


O, I could weep 
My spirit from mine eyes ! — 


yulins Caesar. 


IV. 


3 


„ —RELIEF ... 


To weep, is to make less the depth of grief: 


Henry VI.Pt.3. 


II. 


1 


„ —WOMEN... 


I am not prone to weeping, as our sex 
Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew, 
Perchance, shall dry your pities : but I have 
That honourable grief lodged here, which burns 
Worse than tears drown : 


Winter's Tale. 


>> 


a 


JOY 


How much better is it to weep at joy, than to joy at 
weeping ! 


Much Ado 
Alout Nothing. 


I. 


)t 



221 



CLASSIFICATION. 


TEARS— (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


KINDNESS 


A kind overflow of kindness : there are no faces truer 
than those that are so washed. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


i. 


I 


LAUGHTER 


I must confess, 
Made mine eyes water ; but more merry tears 
The passion of loud laughter never shed. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 


v. 


>> 


„ —LUST 


Flinty mankind ; whose eyes do never give, 
But through lust, and laughter. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 


MEN— ENFORCED 


4 did not think to shed a tear 
In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, 
Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. 


Henry VIII. 


III. 


2 


>> >> 


I have not so much of man in me, 
But all my mother came into my eyes, 
And gave me up to tears. 


Henry V. 


IV. 


6 


>> » 


One, whose subdued eyes, 
Albeit unused to the melting mood, 
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees 
Their medicinal gum : 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


j> »> 


Fare ye well at once : my bosom is full of kindness ; and 
I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that upon 
the least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of me. 


Twelfth Night. 


II. 


I 


„ —NATURAL 


It is our trick ; nature her custom holds, 

Let shame say what it will : when these are gone, 

The woman will be out. — 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


7 


„ —RESOLU- 
TION ... 


I must be brief, lest resolution drop 

Out at mine eyes, in tender womanish tears. — 


King John. 


>> 


i 


„ —SYMPATHY 


My heart hath melted at a lady's tears, 

Being an ordinary inundation ; 

But this effusion of such manly drops, 

This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul, 

Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed 

Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven 

Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. 


>> 


V. 


2 


>> >> 


Lady, weep no more, lest I give cause 
To be suspected of more tenderness 
Than doth become a man ! 


Cymbeline. 


I. 


>> 


NEWS— SAD 


If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 


Julius Ccesar. 


III. 


>> 


ONIONS 


Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon. 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


V. 


ft 


SMILES 


Those happy smiles, 
That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know 
What guests were in her eyes ; which parted thence, 
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. — 


King Lear. 


IV. 


3 


jj ... ... 


His face still combating with tears and smiles, 
The badges of his grief and patience, 


Richard II. 


V. 


2 


» 


You have seen 
Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears 
Were like a better day : 


King Lear. 


IV. 


3 


SYMPATHY 


Tears shew their love, but want their remedies.- — 


Richard II. 


III. 


>> 


WOMEN— GIFT ... 


A woman's gift, 
To rain a shower of commanded tears, 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


Indui 


'don. 


„ —MEN ... 


Dost thou weep ? — 
Then I love thee, 

Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st 
Flinty mankind ; 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 



Z11 






CLASSIFICATION. 


TEARS— (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


WOMEN— SYM- 
PATHY 


The gentle sex to weep are often willing' : 
Grieving themselves to guess at others' smarbs ; 
And then they drown their eyes, or break their hearts. 


Tarquin. 






tf n 


O how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow ! 

Her eyes seen in the tears, tears in her eye ! 

Both crystals, where they view'd each other's sorrow, 


Venus and 
Adonis. 








TEMPER. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


I am as peremptory as she proud-minded ; 
And where two raging fires meet together, 
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury ; 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


ii. 


I 


„ —VIOLENT 


Know you not, 
The fire that mounts the liquor till it run o'er, 
In seeming to augment it, wastes it ? 


Henry Fill. 


i. 


11 


» n 


Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip ? 
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame : 


Othello. 


V. 


2 


FORBEARANCE ... 


Have you not love enough to bear with me, 
When that rash humour, which my mother gave me, 
Makes me forgetful ? 


Julius Caesar. 


IV. 


3 


FRETFUL 


You are so fretful you cannot live long. 


Henry IV. Pt. I. 


III. 


11 


QUICK 


What I think, I utter; and spend my malice in my 
breath : \ 


Coriolanus. 


II. 


I 


,, 


Hasty, and tinder-like, upon too trivial motion : 


M 


11 


11 


, t 


He is rash, and very sudden in choler ; 


Othello. 


11 


It 


,, 


You are yoked with a lamb, 
That carries anger, as the flint bears fire ; 
Who, much enforced, shews a hasty spark, 
And straight is cold again. 


Julius Ccesar. 


IV. 


3 


RESENTING 


Must I give way and room to your rash choler ? 
Shall I be frighted when a madman stares ? 


n n 


11 


ii 


it 


Must I budge ? 
Must I observe you ? Must I stand and crouch 
Under your testy humour ? By the gods, 
You shall digest the venom of your spleen, 
Though it do split you ; for, from this day forth 
I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, 
When you are waspish. 


n n 


11 


ii 




TEMPTATION. 






(SEE ALSO OPPORTUNITY.) 








BEAUTY 


In each grace of these 
There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive devil, 
That tempts most cunningly : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


IV. 


4 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 
The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; 
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us 
In deepest consequence. — 


Macbeth. 


I. 


3 


>> » 


Let not the creaking of shoes, nor the rustling of silks, 
betray thy poor heart to women : Keep thy foot out of 
brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's 
books. 


King Lear. 


III. 


4 



223 



CLASSIFICATION. 



TEMPTATION— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



DISGUISE ... 
FALL 

MAN— TRUE 
OPPORTUNITY 

RICHES ... 
SELF 



TEMPTER v. TEMP. 
TED 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



„ —TEARS 

EXPRESSING— IN- 
ABILITY 

PAYMENT 



POOR (THE) 



AUTHORITY 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, 
With saints dost bait thy hook ! Most dangerous 
Is that temptation, that doth goad us on 
To sin in loving virtue : — 

'Tis the cunning livery of hell, 
The damned'st body to invest and cover 
In princely guards ! 

The devil hath power 
To assume a pleasing shape ; 

When devils will their blackest sins put on, 
They do suggest at first with heavenly shews, 

Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness, 
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. 

'Tis one thing to be tempted, 
Another thing to fall. 

He's no man on whom perfections wait, 
That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate. 

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, 
Makes deeds ill done ! 



Rich preys make true men thieves ; 

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves, 
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, 
Presuming on their changeful potency. 

The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most ? 



THANKS. 

I greet thy love, 
Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous, 

We owe thee much ; within this wall of flesh 
There is a soul, counts thee her creditor, 
And with advantage means to pay thy love : 

I have a kind soul, that would give you thanks, 
And knows not how to do it, but with tears. 

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks ; 

Thanks, and ever thanks : Often good turns 
Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay : 

The poorest service is repaid with thanks ; 

Thanks, the exchequer of the poor ; 



THEFT (thieves), 



Thieves for their robbery have authority, 
When judges steal themselves. 

There is boundless theft 
In limited professions. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Hamlet. 



Othello. 



Twelfth Night. 

Measure for 
Measure. 

Pericles. 

King yohn. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



ii. 



in. 



ii. 



Othello. 



King John. 



ft 11 



Hamlet. 



Twelfth Night. 

Taming of the 
Shreiv 

Richard II. 



IV. 



ii. 



in. 



Measure for 
Measure. 

Timon of 
Athens. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 

ii. 



ii. 



IV. 



224 



CLASSIFICATION. 



TH EFT— f Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



—PETTY 



FEAR 



LOSER— IGNOR- 
ANCE.. 

„ —PHILO- 
SOPHY 

PREMATURE 



REPUTATION v. 
MONEY ... 



TIME— PUNISH- 
MENT ... 

WOMAN'S BEAUTY 
v. GOLD... 



CONFUSED— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF .. 



DANGEROUS „ 



DEEDS 



Every true man's apparel fits your thief : 

The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction 
Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, 
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : 
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 
The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, 
That feeds and breeds by a composure stolen 
From general excrement : each thing's a thief ; 
The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power 
Have uncheck'd theft. 

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles .... 

The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, 
Let him not know 't, and he 's not robb'd at all. 

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief, 

Thou hast stol'n that, which, after some few hours, 
Were thine without offence ; 

Who steals my purse steals trash ; 't is something, nothing ; 
'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thousands ; 
But he that filches from me my good name, 
Robs me of that which not enriches him, 
And makes me poor indeed. 

Time . . . gallops . . . with a thief to the 
gallows ; for though he go as softly as foot can fall, he 
thinks himself too soon there. 

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 



THOUGHT (s). 

(SEE ALSO IMAGINATION.) 

Why does my blood thus muster to my heart, 

Making both it unable for itself, 

And dispossessing all the other parts 

Of necessary fitness ? 

So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons ; 

Come all to help him, and so stop the air 

By which he should revive : 

My thought, whose murder yet is fantastical, 
Shakes so my single state of man, that function 
Is smother'd in surmise ; and nothing is, 
But what is not. 

Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, 
Which, at the first, are scarce found to distaste ; 
But, with a little act upon the blood, 
Burn like the mines of sulphur. — 

His act did not o'ertake his bad intent ; 

And must be buried but as an intent 

That perish'd by the way : thoughts are not subjects ; 

Intents but merely thoughts. 

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried, 



Measure for 
Measure. 


IV. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


M 


Winter's Tale. 


>> 


Henry VI. Pt.^. 


V. 


Othello. 


III. 


j> 


I. 


Henry IV.Pt.2. 


IV. 


Othello. 


III. 



As You Like It. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Macbeth. 



Othello. 



Measure for 
Measure. 

Tar quin. 



ii. 



in. 



v. 



115 



CLASSIFICATION. 



THOUGHT— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
DESPERATE 

„ —HEAD- 
STRONG 



-MEDITA- 



EVIL 



— O, mischief, thou are swift 
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men ! 

My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown 
Too headstrong for their mother : 



TION . . . Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, 

Who has a breast so pure, 
But some uncleanly apprehensions 
Keep leets, and law-days, and in session sit 
With meditations lawf ul ? 

Where's that palace, whereinto foul things 
Sometimes intrude not? 

By Heaven he echoes me, 

As if there were some monster in his thought, 

Too hideous to be shewn. 

Die, unhallow'd thoughts, before you blot 
With your uncleanness that which is divine ! 

Present fears 
Are less than horrible imaginings : 

Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle 
For girls of nine ! — 

You do unbend your noble strength, to think 
So brainsickly of things. — 

Imagination of some great exploit 
Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. 

Though I am bound to every act of duty, 
I am not bound to that all slaves are free to ! 
Utter my thoughts ! 

Thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool ; 
And time, that takes survey of all the world, 
Must have a stop. 

Love-thoughts lie rich, when canopied with bowers. 

Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes, 

Despair and hope make thee ridiculous : 

The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely, 
In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly. 



FEARS— SUSPENSE; 
FOOLISH 

HIGH-FLOWN ... 
LIBERTY 

LIFE— TIME 

LOVE 



„ —FREE 
POWER ... 

REFLECTED— 
PURE ... 

RESOLUTION- 
ACTIONS 



SAD— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF. 



SPEAKING- 
COUNSEL 

226 



In maiden meditation, fancy free. 

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes 
it so : 

By the pattern of my own thoughts I cut out 
The purity of his. 

The native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; 
And enterprizes of great pith and moment, 
With this regard, their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action. — 

My thoughts are minutes ; and, with sighs, they jar 
Their watches to mine eyes, the outward watch, 
Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, 
Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. 

Give thy thoughts no tongue, 
Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Troilus and 

Cressida. 



Othello. 



Tarquin. 



Macbeth. 



Winters Tale. 



Macbeth. 



Othello. 



Samlet. 

Richard II. 
Hamlet. 



v. 1 



in. 



As You Like It. iv. 



in. 



1. 



in. 



11. 



HenrylV.Pt.l. 1 



in. 



Henry IF.Pt.i. v. 
Twelfth Night. 1. 



Venus and 
Adonis. 

Midsummer 
"Night's Dream n. 



Hamlet. 



Winter's Tale. iv. 



in. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



THOUGHT— (Continued). 



PLAY OK POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



THINKER— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF . 

THOUGHTFUL „ 



WISH 

WOMEN— AC- 
TIONS. 

WORDS ... 



BEAUTY 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



-ARBITRA- 
TOR. 



-BANKRUPT 



—FASHION 



-FORGET 

FULNESS 



DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
GOOD .., 

„ —JUSTICE 
„ —TUTOR 



Has a lean and hungry look ; 
He thinks too much : 

You look, 
As if you held a brow of much distraction : 

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought ; 



Woman's thought runs before her actions. 

I pray thee, speak to me as to thy thinkings, 

As thou dost ruminate : and give thy worst of thoughts 

The worst of words. 

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, 
Brags of his substance, not of ornament : 



TIME. 

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, 
But sad mortality o'ersways their power, 
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, 
Whose action is no stronger than a flower? 
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out 
Against the wreckful siege of battering days, 
When rocks impregnable are not so stout, 
Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? 

It is ten o'clock : 
Thus may we see, quoth he, how the world wags ; 
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; 
And after an hour more, 'twill be eleven ; 
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, 
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, 
And thereby hangs a tale. 

That old common arbitrator, Time, 

The extreme parts of time extremely form 
All causes to the purpose of his speed ; 
And often, at his very loose, decides 
That which long process could not arbitrate. 

Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's 
worth, to season. 

Time is like a fashionable host, 
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand ; 
And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, 
Grasps in the comer : Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, 
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, 
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes 
Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd 
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 
As done . . 



Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 

Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such 
offenders, and let Time try : 

O Time, thou tutor both to good and bad, 



Julius Ccesar, 

Winter's Tale. 
Henry lF.Pt.2. 

As You Like It. 

Othello. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Sonnet 65. 



IV. 



111. 



11. 



As You Like It. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



11. 



IV. 



IV. 



111. 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

As You Like It. 
Tar quin. 



in. 



IV. 



CLASSIFICATION. 


TIME— (Continued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


EFFECT 


To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours, 

And smear with dust their glittering golden towers : 


Tarquin. 






,, 


To fill with worm-holes stately monuments, 
To feed oblivion with decay of things, 

To blot old books, and alter their contents, 

To pluck the quills from ancient ravens' wings ; 
To dry the old oak's sap, and cherish springs ; 

To spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel, 

And turn the giddy round of fortune's wheel : 


»> 






n 


Time's glory is to calm contending kings, 
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, 
To stamp the seal of time in aged things, 
To wake the morn, and sentinel the night, 
To wrong the wronger till he render right ; 


jj 






n 


Time's office is, to fine the hate of foes ; 
To eat up errors, by opinion bred, 


» 






,, 


Time, whose million'd accidents 
Creep in 'twix vows, and change decrees of kings, 
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents, 

Divert strong minds to the course of altering things ; 


Sonnet 115. 






,, 


Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, 
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow , 

Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, 

And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow : 


„ 60. 






it 


Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides ; 


King Lear. 


I. 


I 


,, ... 


The heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs. 


Henry FI.Pt.3. 


III. 


3 


,, 


Beauty, wit, 
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, 
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all 
To envious and calumniating time. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


>> 


j) 


END 


Time, that takes survey of all the world, 
Must have a stop. 


Henry IF.Pt.i. 


V. 


4 


ETERNITY 


Thou ceaseless lackey to eternity, 


Tarquin. 






,, ... 


Time's thievish progress to eternity. 


Sonnet 77. 






EVENTS— FUTURE 


There are many events in the womb of time, which will 
be delivered. 


Othello. 


I. 


3 


LAWYERS— VACA- 
TION 


Stays it still, with lawyers in the vacation : for they 
sleep between term and term, and then they perceive not 
how time moves. 


As You Like It. 


III. 


2 


LONG— SAD 


Now hath time made me his numb'ring clock : 
My thoughts are minutes ; and, with sighs, they jar 
Their watches to mine eyes, the outward watch, 
Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, 
Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. 


Richard II. 


V. 


4 


5> }} 


Sad hours seem long. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


I. 


1 


„ —SUSPENSE 


So tedious is this day, 
As is the night before some festival 
To an impatient child, that hath new robes, 
And may not wear them. 


a 


III. 


2 


LOST 


I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 


Richard II. 


V. 


4 


yj 


Well, thus we play the fools with the time ; and the 
spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us, — 


Henry IY.Pt.2. 


II. 


2 



228 



CLASSIFICATION. 



TIME— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



LOST 



MAIDS— MAR- 
RIAGE. 



MIS-SPENT 



PAST— PRESENT- 
FUTURE . 

„ —REGRETS 



RICH— IGNORANT 



SEASON 

THIEVES- 
PUNISHMENT 

SHORT— FARE- 
WELLS 



—LOVERS 



—PLEASURE 



DEGENERACY 



I have been an idle truant, 
Omitting the sweet benefit of time, 
To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection ; 

He trots hard with a young maid, between the contract 
of her marriage, and the day it is solemnized: if the 
interim be but a se'ennight, time's pace is so hard, that it 
seems the length of seven years. 

We are all diseased ; 
And, with our surfeiting, and wanton hours 
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, 
And we must bleed for it. 



Past, and to come, seem best : things present, worst, 

One poor retiring minute in an age 

Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends, 

With a priest, that lacks Latin, and a rich man, that 
hath not the gout : for the one sleeps easily because he can- 
not study ; and the other lives merrily, because he feels no 
pain : the one lacking the burden of lean and wasteful 
learning ; the other knowing no burden of heavy tedious 
penury : These time ambles withal. 



There's a time for all things. 

Gallops . . . with a thief to the gallows ; for though he go 
as softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there. 

Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, 

Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how : 

As many farewells as be stars in heaven, 

With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them, 

He fumbles up in a loose adieu : 

And scants us with a single famish'd kiss, 

Distasted with the salt of broken tears. 

For lovers' hours are long, though seeming short : 
If pleased themselves, others, they think, delight 
In such like circumstance, with such like sport : 

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. — 



TIMES (the). 



Virtue is of so little regard in these coster-monger times, 
that true valour is turned bearherd : 

Pregnancy, is made a tapster, and hath his quick wit 
wasted in giving reckonings : all the other gifts, apperti- 
nent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are 
not worth a gooseberry. 

These days are dangerous ! 
Virtue is choked with foul ambition, 
And charity chased hence by rancour's hand ; 

There's nothing serious in mortality : 
All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; 
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 
Is left this vault to brag of. 

In the fatness of these pursy times, 
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg ; 
Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good. 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 



As You Like It. 



n. 



HI. 



Henry IV.Pt.z. iv. 



»> >> 



Tarquin. 



As You Like It 

Comedy of 
Errors. 



As You Like It 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

Othello. 



Henry IV.Pt.z, 



in. 



n. 



in. 



iv. 



ii. 



Henry VI. Pt. 2. ill. 



Macbeth. 



Hamlet. 



ii. 



m. 



229 



CLASSIFICATION. 



TIMES— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



DEMOCRATIC . 

DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
TURBULENT 



„ —SACRED... 



PROPHESY— SIGNS 



ASSERTING 



AVOIDED 

CONFIRMED 

DESCRIPTIVE OF 

n n 

DEVIL— SHAME .. 
DYING WORDS .. 

POWER 

SIMPLICITY 

SPEAKING- 
DANGER .. 

SWEARING 
TRADITION 



The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant 
comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — Hamlet 



The time is out of joint, — 

The present time's so sick, 
That present medicine must be administer'd, 
Or overthrow incurable ensues. 

The times are wild ; contention, like a horse 
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, 
And bears down all before him. 

Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes, 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
This bird of dawning singeth all night long : 
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; 
The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, 
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, 
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. 

There is a history in all men's lives, 
Figuring the nature of the times deceased : 
The which observed, a man may prophesy, 
With a near aim, of the main chance of things 
As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, 
And weak beginnings lie intreasured. 



TRUTH. 

So come, my soul to bliss as I speak true ; 
So speaking as I think I die, — 

I told him what I thought ; and told no more 
Than what he found himself was apt and true. 

I have look'd on truth 
Askance and strangely. 

Truth can never be confirm'd enough, 
Though doubts did ever sleep. 

Truth hath a quiet breast. 

Truth loves open dealing. 

Tell truth, and shame the devil. — 

Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain ; 
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. 

If angels fight, 
Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right. 

Simple truth miscall'd simplicity. 

Truth's a dog that must to kennel ; he must be whipp'd 
out, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and 
stink. 

The truth thou art unsure 
To swear, swear only not to be forsworn ; 
Else, what a mockery should it be to swear ? 

Methinks, the truth shall live from age to age, 
As 'twere retail'd to all posterity, 
Even to the general all-ending day. 



Hamlet. 


v. 


M 


i. 


King John. 


v. 


Henry IV.Pt.2. 


i. 


Hamlet. 


11 


Henry IF. Pt. 2. 


III. 


Othello. 


V. 


a 


>> 


Sonnet no. 





Pericles. 
Richard II. 
Henry VIII. 
Henry IV. Pt. i. 

Richard II. 



Sonnet 66. 
King Lear. 
King John. 
Richard III. 



n 

i. 

in. 



ii. 



in. 



in. 



230 



CLASSIFICATION. 


TRUTH— -CContinued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


UNMIXED 


Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd ; 
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay ; 
But best is best, if never intermix'd ? 


Sonnet 101. 






WORDS— DEEDS... 


Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


II. 


2 




TYRANTS. 








CRUEL 


Shame to him whose cruel striking 
Kills for faults of his own liking ! 


Measure for 
Measure 


III. 


2 


DECEIT— FEAR ... 


'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 


Pericles. 


I. 


>> 


GOVERNMENT ... 


How can tyrants safely govern home, 
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance ? 


Henry VI.Pt.3. 


III. 


3 


STRENGTH 


It is excellent 
To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 
To use it like a giant. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


II. 


2 


- 


UGLINESS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
DISLIKE ... 


Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me 
Thou wouldst appear most ugly. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


5 


FLATTERY 


Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


1 


UNKINDNESS ... 


In nature there's no blemish, but the mind ; 
None can be call'd deform'd, but the unkind : 


Twelfth Night. 


III. 


4 




UNFAITHFULNESS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


If I do prove her haggard, 

Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, 
I 'Id whistle her off and let her down the wind, 
To prey at fortune. 


Othello. 


III. 


3 


» >> 


Trust not him that hath once broken faith, — 


Henry Vl.Pt.^. 


IV. 


4 




UNKINDNESS. 








DEFORMITY 


None can be call'd deform'd, but the unkind : 


Twelfth Night. 


III. 


4 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


This was the most unkindest cut of all : 


Julius Cossar. 


>> 


2 


LOVE 


Unkindness may do much ; 
And his unkindness may defeat my life, 
But never taint my love. 


Othello. 


IV. 


tf 


NEGLECT 


I have perceived a most faint neglect of late ; which I 
have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity, than as 
a very pretence and purpose of unkindness : 


King Lear. 

1 


I. 


4 



231 



CLASSIFICATION. 



USE. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





USE (see also custom). 








BASE 


To what base uses we may return, 


Hamlet. 


v. 


I 


POWER 


Use almost can change the stamp of nature, 


>) 


in. 


4 


>1 

\ 


How use doth breed a habit in a man ! 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


v. 


>> 




VALOUR (see courage). 










VALUE. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Value dwells not in particular will ; 

It holds its estimate and dignity 

As well wherein 'tis precious of itself 

As in the prizer : 'tis mad idolatry, 

To make the service greater than the god ; 

And the will dotes, that is attributive 

To what infectiously itself affects, 

Without some image of the affected merit. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


ii. 


2 


3» » 


What things there are, 
Most abject in regard, and dear in use ! 
What things again most dear in the esteem, 
And poor in worth ! 


a ji 


ni. 


3 


5.« ' » 


What we have we prize not to the worth, 
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, 
Why, then we rack the value, then we find 
The virtue, that possession would not shew us 
Whiles it was ours. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


IV. 


i 


„ —ESTIMA- 
TION... 


What is aught, but as 'tis valued ? 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


II. 


2 


„ —GIFTS ... 


Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. 


Hamlet. 


III. 


I 




VANITY. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, 
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 


Richard II. 


II. 


I 


» t> 


Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, 
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile,) 
That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears ? 


>> >> 


>> 


Jt 


» » 


It is not vain-glory, for a man and his glass to confer ; 
in his own chamber, 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


» 




VICE (see sin). 









232 



CLASSIFICATION. 



VIRTUE. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



AMBITION... 

—WAR. 

APPOSITE— USE . 



ASSUMPTION 
BEAUTY ... 



BOLDNESS 
ESTIMATE— TIMES 



FOLLY 

FRIENDLESS 

HAPPINESS 



VIRTUE (s). 



Virtue is choked with foul ambition, 

Big wars, 
That make ambition virtue ! 

Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do : 
Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues 
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike 
As if we had them not. 

Much attribute he hath ; and much the reason 
Why we ascribe it to him : yet all his virtues, — 
Not virtuously on his own part beheld, — • 
Do, in our eyes, begin to lose their gloss ; 
Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish, 
Are like to rot untasted. 

Man — how dearly ever parted, 
How much in having, or without, or in, — 
Cannot make boast to have that which he hath, 
Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflection ; 
As when his virtues shining upon others 
Heat them, and they retort that heat again 
To the first giver. 

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 

Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous-evil 
Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil. 

The goodness, that is cheap in beauty, makes beauty 
brief in goodness: 

Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! 

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 
For that sweet odour which doth in it live. 



Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. 

Our virtues 
Lie in the interpretation of the time ; 

Virtue is of so little regard in these coster-mcnger times, 
that true valour is turned bearherd : 

The evil that men do, lives after them ; 
The good is oft interred with their bones ; 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 
We write in water. 

He was a fool ; 
For he would needs be virtuous : 

(Let me speak myself, 
Since virtue finds no friends,) — 

Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, 
Led on by Heaven, and crown' d with joy at last. 

Study, 
Virtue and that part of philosophy 
Will I apply, that treats of happiness, 
By virtue 'specially to be achieved. 



Henry n.Pt.2, 



Othello. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Hamlet. 

Twelfth Night 

Measure for 
Measure. 



Sonnet 54. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



Coriolanus. 
Henry IF.Pt.2, 
Julius Caesar, 
Henry VIII. 

Pericles. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



in. 



11. 



in. 



IV. 



in. 



IV. 



II. 



III. 



233 



CLASSIFICATION. 



VIRTUE— (Continued). 



PLAY OE POEM. ACT. SC. 



LUST 



MISAPPLIED— 

VICE. 

NECESSITY 
PATCHED— SIN . 

PAST— TIME 



RICHES 



VICES— TO- 
GETHER... 



WOMEN— AD- 

MIRED... 

YOUTH— INEX- 
PERIENCE 



GENTLE- 



MODESTY 
—WOMEN 



RECOGNITION 



SWEET-^LOSS 



—PRAISE. 



Virtue, as it never will be moved, 

Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven ; 

So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, 

Will sate itself in a celestial bed, 

And prey on garbage. 

Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied; 
And vice sometime's by action dignified. 

Make a virtue of necessity, 

Virtue, that transgresses, is but patched with sin ; and 
sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue : 

Let not virtue seek 
Remuneration for the thing it was ! 
For beauty, wit, 

High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, 
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all 
To envious and calumniating time. 

I held it ever, 
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend ; 
But immortality attends the former, 
Making a man a god. 

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill 
together ; our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped 
them not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not 
cherished by our virtues. — 

'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired. 

The untainted virtue of your years 
Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit : 



VOICE. 

Soft-slow tongue, true mark of modesty. 

Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle and low; an excellent thing'in woman: 

The trick of that voice I do well remember : 

My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words 
Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound : 

That delightful engine of her thoughts, 
That blabb'd them with pleasing eloquence, 
Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage ; 
Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung 
Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear ! 

Starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry, 
The more she give them speech. — 

When she speaks, is it not an alarum to love ? 

When you speak, sweet, 
I'd have you do it ever : 



Hamlet. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Twelfth Night. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Pericles. 

AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 

HenryVI.Pt.3 

Richard III. 



Tarquin. 
King Lear. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Titus 

Andronicus. 

Pericles. 
Othello. 

Winter's Tale. 



11. 



IV. 



111. 



IV. 



I. 



III. 



V. 

IV. 

II. 



III. 

V. 

II. 

IV. 



'34 



CLASSIFICATION. 



vows. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



BC. 





I 

VOWS (see also oaths). 








ASKING 


Plight me the full assurance of your faith ; 
That my most jealous and too doubtful soul 
May live at peace : 


Twelfth Night. 


IV. 


3 


BROKEN— EXCUSE 


Do not call it sin in me, 
That I am forsworn for thee ; 
Thou, for whom even Jove would swear, 
Juno but an Ethiop were ; 
. And deny himself for Jove, 
Turning mortal for thy love. — 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


» 


>> 


„ —REBUKE 


Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou hadst two, 
And that's far worse than none : better have none 
Than plural faith, which is too much by one : 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


v. 


4 


DESCRIPTIVE OF— 

INSINCERE... 


Do not believe his vows ; for they are brokers, 
Not of that die which their investments shew, 
But mere implorators of unholy suits, 
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, 
The better to beguile. 


Hamlet. 


i. 


3 


„ —MAKING 


Witness, you ever-burning lights above ! 
You elements that clip us round about ! 


Othello. 


m. 


>> 


>> >> 


Now, by yond' marble heaven 
In the due reverence of a sacred vow 
I here engage my words. 


>} 


» 


?j 


HASTY 


The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows : 
They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd 
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


v. 


3 


HEEDLESS 


Unheedful vows may heedf ully be broken ; 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


II. 


6 


HOLY 


Let thy vow, 
First made to heaven, first be to Heaven perform'd ; 


King John. 


III. 


i 


LOVE— MAKING ... 


I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow ; 

By his best arrow with the golden head ; 

By the simplicity of Venus' doves ; 

By that which knitteth souls, and prospers loves ; 

By all the vows that ever men have broke, 

In number more than ever women spoke ; — 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 


I. 


>) 


„ 


Do not swear at all ; 
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, 
Which is the god of my idolatry, 
And I'll believe thee. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


2 


„ —MOON ... 


O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, 
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 


t> >> 


J> 


if 


LOVERS 


The oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a 
tapster ; they are both the confirmers of false reckonings : 


As You Like It. 


III. 


4 


,, 


All lovers swear more performance than they are able, 
and yet reserve an ability that they never perform ; vow- 
ing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less 
than the tenth part of one. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


)) 


2 


MEN— WOMEN ... 


Men's vows are women's traitors 1 


Cymbeline. 


>J 


4 


MOON 


By yonder blessed moon I swear, 
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops, — 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


II. 


2 


PASSION 


When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 
Lends the tongue vows ; 


Hamlet. 


I. 


3 



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CLASSIFICATION. 


VOWS— (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


PURPOSE 


It is the purpose, that makes strong the vow ; 
But vows, to every purpose, must not hold : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


v. 


3 


RELIGION 


It is religion, that doth make vows kept ; 
But thou hast sworn against religion ; 


King John. 


in. 


i 


SINFUL— UN- 
BINDING 

• 


Who can be bound by any solemn vow 

To do a murderous deed, to rob a man, 

To force a spotless virgin's chastity, 

To reave the orphan of his patrimony, 

To wring the widow from her custom'd right ; 

And have no other reason for this wrong, 

But that he was bound by a solemn oath ? 


Henry VLPt.2. 


V. 


>> 


TRUTH 


'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth ; 
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. 


AWs Well That 
Ends Well. 


IV. 


2 


WOMEN 


The vows of women, 
Of no more bondage be to where they are made, 
Than they are to their virtues ; which is nothing : — 


Cymbeline. 


II. 


4 


ADVANTAGE v. 
RASHNESS 


WAR (battles). 

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness 


Henry V. 


III. 


6 


AMBITION— VIR- 
TUE 


The plumed troop, and the big wars, 
That make ambition virtue ! 


Othello. 


>> 


3 


CIVIL— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF ... 


Now, for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty, 
Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, 
And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace : 


King John. 


IV. 


>> 


» >> 


Civil dissention is a viperous worm, 

That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. 


Henry VI. Pt. I. 


III. 


i 


CRIES 


Hang out our banners on the outward walls ; 
The cry is still, They come : 


Macbeth. 


V. 


5 


• T . X 


Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war; 


Julius Caesar. 


III. 


i 


DEFENCE— COUN- 
SEL... 


In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh 
The enemy more mighty than he seems, 
So the proportions of defence are fill'd , 
Which, of a weak and niggardly projection, 
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat, with scanting 
A little cloth. 


Henry V. 


II. 


4 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


Fire answers fire; and through their paly flames 
Each battle sees the other's umber'd face : 
Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs 
Piercing the night's dull ear : and from the tents, 
The armourers, accomplishing the knights, 
With busy hammers closing rivets up, 
Give dreadful note of preparation. 


35 


IV. 


Cho- 


» » 


From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, 
The hum of either army stilly sounds, 
That the fix'd sentinels almost receive 
The secret whispers of each other's watch : 


3> 


>> 


rus 


» » 


The neighing steed, and the shrill trump, 
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, 
The royal banner ; and all quality, 
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! 


Othello. 


III. 


3 


>> >> 


He is come to ope 
The purple testament of bleeding war ; 


Richard II. 


>> 


>> 



236 



CLASSIFICATION. 



WAR — (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



END— PEACE 



» » 






EVIL 



FAME— FOLLY 



FELLOWSHIP- 
DEATH. 

HONOR— NA- 
TIONS . 



„ —POLICY 

INCITING— COUR- 
AGE 



—HONOR 



JUST 

KINGS' RESPON- 
SIBILITY 



„ —SOLDIERS 



MERCY v.CRUELTY 



237 



The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, 
No more shall cut his master. 

Thy threat'ning colours now wind up, 
And tame the savage spirit of wild war ; 
That, like a lion foster' d up at hand, 
It may lie gently at the foot of peace, * 
And be no farther harmful than in shew. 

O war, thou son of hell, 
Whom angry heavens do make their minister, 

The imminent death of twenty thousand men, 
That, for a fantasy, and trick of fame, 
Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot 
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, 
Which is not tomb enough, and continent, 
To hide the slain ! — 

We would not die in that man's company, 
That fears his fellowship to die with us. 

Rightly to be great, 
Is, not to stir without great argument ; 
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, 
When honour's at the stake. 

Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, 
I' the war do grow together : 

On, on you noblest English, 
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof ! 
Fathers, that, like so many Alexanders, 
Have, in these parts, from morn till even fought, 
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. 

If we are marked to die, we are enou 

To do our country loss ; and if to live, 

The fewer men, the greater share of honour. 

The peace of Heaven is theirs, that lift their swords 
In such a just and charitable war. 

If the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy 
reckoning to make ; when all those legs, and arms, and 
heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the 
latter day, and cry all — We died at such a place; some 
swearing ; some, crying for a surgeon ; some, upon their 
wives left poor behind them ; some, upon the debts they 
owe ; some, upon their children, rawly left. I am afear'd 
there are few die well, that die in battle ; for how can they 
charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argu- 
ment ? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a 
black matter for the king, that led them to it ; whom to 
disobey, were against all proportion of subjection. 

Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's 
soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the 
wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out 
of his conscience ; and dying so, death is to him advan- 
tage ; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost, wherein 
such preparation was gained : and in him that escapes, it 
were not sin to think that, making God so free an offer, he 
let him outlive that day to see his greatness, and to teach 
others how they should prepare. 

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler 
gamester is the soonest winner. 



Henry IV. Pl.x. 1. 



v. 



King John. 
Henry VLPt.2. „ 



Hamlet. 
Henry V. 

Hamlet. 
Coriolanus. 



Henry V. 



IV. 



in. 



IV. 



King John. 



Henry V. 



IV. 



in. 



CLASSIFICATION. 


WAR — (Continued). 


PLAY OK, POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


NUMBERS— RASH- 
NESS 


'Tis odds beyond arithmetic ; 
And manhood is called foolery, when it stands 
Against a falling fabric. — 


Coriolanus. 


in. 


I 


PEACE— CON- 
DUCT.. 


In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, 
As modest stillness and humility: 
But when the blast of war blows in our ears, 
Then imitate the action of the tiger ; 


Henry V. 


it 


11 


PREPARATION ... 


Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows, 
Why this same strict and most observant watch 
So nightly toils the subject of the land ? 
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, 
And foreign mart for implements of war ; 
Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task 
Does not divide the Sunday from the week : 
What might be toward, that this sweaty haste 
Doth make the night joint labourer with the day ; 
Who is't, that can inform me ? 


Hamlet. 


i. 


11 


REGRET— SOL- 
DIERS' 


O, it grieves my soul, 
That I must draw this metal from my side, 
To be a widow-maker. 


King John. 


v. 


2 


RESULT— DOUBT- 
FUL... 


Doubtfully it stood ; 
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together, 
And choke their art. 


Macbeth. 


i. 


li 


REVOLT 


All the regions 
Do smilingly revolt ; and who resist 
Are only mock'd for valiant ignorance, 
And perish constant fools. 


Coriolanus. 


IV. 


6 


UNJUST 


Shall it, for shame, be spoken in these days, 
Or fill up chronicles in time to come, 
That men of your nobility and power 
Did 'gage them both in an unjust behalf, — 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


i. 


3 


VICTORY 


A victory is twice itself, when the achiever brings home 
full numbers. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


a 


i 


j, 


Victory sits on our helm, 


Richard III. 


V. 


3 


„ —PEACE... 


Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; 


» » 


I. 


i 




WARNINGS. 








DESCRIPTIVE OF 


When the sun sets, who doth not look for night ? 


Richard III. 


11. 


3 


55 11 


When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand ; 


}> 11 


11 


a 


»J 11 


Untimely storms make men expect a dearth : 


11 11 


11 


») 


11 » 


When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks ; 


>> a 


11 


a 


11 11 


Men, that stumble at the threshold, 
Are well foretold — that danger lurks within. 


Henry VI. Pt. 3. 


IV. 


7 




WEATHER. 








DESCRIPTrVE OF— 
CLOUDS... 


All together, 
Like many clouds consulting for foul weather. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






„ —COLD 


The air bites shrewdly ; it is very cold. 
It is a nipping and an eager air. 


Hamlet. 


I. 


4 



2 3 8 



CLASSIFICATION. 


WEATHER— (Continued). 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


SIGN— FINE 


The weary sun hath made a golden set, 
And, by the bright track of his fiery car, 
Gives tokens of a goodly day to-morrow. — 


Richard III. 


V. 


3 


„ —FOUL 


The sun should have braved the east an hour ago : 
A black day will it be. 


t) M 


u 


it 


11 11 


A red morn, that ever yet betoken'd 
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, 
Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds, 
Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds. 


Venus and 
Adonis. 






y> i) 


How bloodily the sun begins to peer 
Above yon busky hill ! the day looks pale 
At his distemperature. 


Henry IV.Pt.x. 


>> 


i 


>> 11 


The southern wind 
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes ; 
And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, 
Foretells a tempest, and a blustering day. 


11 n 


11 


if 


„ —STORM... 


We often see, against some storm, 
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, 
The bold winds speechless, and the orb below 
As hush as death : anon the dreadful thunder 
Doth rend the region : 


Hamlet. 


II. 


2 


CEREMONY- 
FASHION... 


WELCOME (s). 

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony : 


if 


II. 


2 


„ —FRIEND- 
SHIP 


Ceremony 
Was but devised at first, to set a gloss 
On faint deeds, hollow welcomes, 
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shewn : 
But where there is true friendship, there needs none. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


I. 


>> 


DESCRIPTIVE OF 


I give you welcome with a powerless hand, 
But with a heart full of unstained love : 


King John. 


II. 


I 


>> »> 


We should have met you, by sea and land, supplying 

every stage 
With an augmented greeting. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


III. 


6 


„ —FARE- 
WELLS... 


Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


11 


3 


MEALS— CERE- 
MONY... 


The feast is sold 
That is not often vouch' d, while 'tis a making, 
'Tis given with welcome : To feed were best at home ; 
From thence, the sauce to meat is ceremony ; 
Meeting were bare without it. 


Macbeth. 


11 


4 


,, 


Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


11 


i 


>» 


A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. 


n u 


11 


a 


» 


Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast. 


n n 


11 


u 


,, 


Good meat, sir, is common ; that every churl affords. 
And welcome more common ; for that's nothing but words. 


n n 


11 


i> 


,, ... 


I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear. 


u n 


)> 


a 


SILENT v. ELO- 
QUENT 


Where I have come, great clerks have purposed 
To greet me with premeditated welcomes ; 
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale, 









239 



CLASSIFICATION. 



WELCOME— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



sc. 



SILENT v. ELO- 
QUENT ... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



—STORY 
TELLING 



AUDIENCE 



— UNAPPRE- 
CIATIVE 



240 



Make periods in the midst of sentences, 
Throttle their practised accent in their fears, 
And, in conclusion, dumbly have broke off,j 
Not paying me a welcome : Trust me, 
Out of this silence, yet, I pick'd a welcome ; 
And in the modesty of fearful duty 
I read as much, as from the rattling tongue 
Of saucy and audacious eloquence. 



WINTER. 

When icicles hang by the wall, 

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, 
And Tom bears logs into the hall, 

And milk comes frozen home in pail, 
When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, 
Then nightly sings the staring owl, 

To-who ; 
Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, 
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. 

When all aloud the wind doth blow, 

And coug'hing drowns the parson's saw, 
And birds sit brooding in the snow, 

And Marian's nose looks red and raw, 
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, 
Then nightly sings the staring owl, 

To-who ; 
Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, 
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 

As man's ingratitude ; 
Thy tooth is not so keen, 
Because thou art not seen, 

Although thy breath be rude. 

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, 
Thou dost not bite so nigh 

As benefits forgot : 
Though thou the waters warp, 
Thy sting is not so sharp 

As friend remembered not. 

A sad tale's best for winter. 

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire 
With good old folk and let them tell the tales 
Of woful ages long ago betid ; 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 



» »> 



WIT (see ALSO jesters). 

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 

Of him that makes it : 

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's 
good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, 
it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a 
little room : — 



v. 



» » 



As You Like It. 



Winter's Tale. 



Richard II. 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 



As You Like It 



11. 



in. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



WIT— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



AUDIENCE— UN- 
APPRECIATIVE 

BREVITY v. 

TEDIOUSNESS 

DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
LAUGHTER 

FAST 



OPPORTUNITY 



PUNS 



SHARP 
WITLESS ... 
WOMEN ... 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. 

Brevity is the soul of wit, 
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, — 

Flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on 
a roar . . . 

Your wit 's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire. 

Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an 
instant ? 

Thou know'st, we work by wit, and not by witchcraft ; 
And wit depends on dilatory time, 

They that dally nicely with words, may quickly make 
them wanton. 

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit ; 

How every fool can play upon the word ! I think, the 
best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence ; and dis- 
course grow commendable in none only but parrots. — 

Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting ; - it is a most sharp 
sauce. 

He, that hath learned no wit by nature nor art, may com- 
plain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred. 

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at 
the casement ; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole ; 
stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. 

You shall never take her without her answer, unless you 
take her without her tongue. 



Hamlet. 



WITCHCRAFT. 

This town is full of cozenage ; 
As, nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye, 
Dark-working sorcerers, that change the mind, 
Soul-killing-witches, that deform the body ; 
Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, 
And many such like liberties of sin : 

I'll refer me to all things of sense, 
If she in chains of magic were not bound, 
Whether a maid — so tender, fair, and happy ; 
So opposite to marriage, that she shunn'd 
The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, 
Would ever have, to incur a general mock, 
Run from her guardage to the bosom 
Of such a thing as thou : 

Thou hast practised on her with foul charms 
Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals, 
That weaken'd motion : — I'll have it disputed on ; 
'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking. 
I therefore apprehend and do attach thee, 
For an abuser of the world, a practiser 
Of arts inhibited and out of warrant : — 

— Are there not charms, 
By which the property of youth and maidhood 
May be abused ? 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 

Othello. 

Twelfth Night. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 

As You Like It. 



IV. 



ii. 



ii. 



m. 






Comedy of 
Errors. 



Othello. 



11. 



in. 



IV. 



24 1 



CLASSIFICATION. 



WIVES. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 





WIVES (see ALSO husbands). 








ANGRY 


Fy, fy ! unknit that threat'ning unkind brow ; 
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, 
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor : 
It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads ; 
Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake their buds : 
And in no sense is meet, or amiable. 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


v. 


2 


CORRUPT— TIME 


The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife, is when she's 
fallen out with her husband. 


Coriolanus. 


IV. 


3 


DUTY— EXPRESS- 
ING ... 


My heart's subdued 
Even to the very quality of my lord : 


Othello. 


I. 


» 


„— TO HUSBAND 


Such duty as the subject owes the prince, 
Even such, a woman oweth to her husband : 
And when she's fro ward, peevish, sullen, sour, 
And not obedient to his honest will, 
What is she, but a foul contending rebel, 
And graceless traitor to her loving lord ? — 
I am ashamed that women are so simple 
To offer war, where they should kneel for peace ; 
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, 
Where they are bound to serve, love, and obey. 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


V. 


2 


» » 


Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, 
Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee 
And for thy maintenance : commits his body 
To painful labour, both by sea and land; 
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, 
While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe ; 
And craves no other tribute at thy hands, 
But love, fair looks, and true obedience ; — 
Too little payment for so great a debt. 


>> }t 


» 


»> 


>> >> 


Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth, 
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world ; 
But that our soft conditions, and our hearts, 
Should well agree with our external parts ? 


>> >> 


>> 


jj 


>> >> 


I see, our lances are but straws ; 

Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare, — 

That seeming to be most, which we least are. 


» >> 


>> 


>> 


DUTIFUL— NEG- 
LECTED 


Have I with all my full affections 

. . . Loved him next Heaven ? obey'd him ? 
Been, out of fondness, superstitious to him ? 
Almost forgot my prayers to content him ? 
And am I thus rewarded ? 


Henry VIII. 


III. 


I 


FAULTS— EX- 
CUSES 


O, that woman that cannot make her fault her husband's 
occasion, let her never nurse her child herself, for she will 
breed it like a fool. 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


tt 


HONORABLE- 
TRUE... 


You are my true and honourable wife ; 
As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. 


Julius C&sar. 


II. 


>> 


„ —v. MAIDS 


Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky 
changes when they are wives. 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


>> 


PRAISE 


If, one by one, you wedded all the world, 
Or from the all, that are, took something good, 
To make a perfect woman ; she you kill'd, 
Would be unparallel'd. 


Winters Tale. 


T - 


» 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



WIVES— (Continued) . 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



sc. 



PRAISE 



-LOST 



SECRETS OF HUS- 
BANDS 



UNFAITHFUL 



VIXEN— DESCRIP- 
TIVE Q¥ 



AMBITIOUS 

ANGER .., 



That man i' th' world, who shall report he has 
A better wife, let him in nought be trusted, 
For speaking false in that : 

Bring me a constant woman to her husband ; 
One, that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure ; 
And to that woman, when she has done most, 
Yet will I add an honour, — a great patience. 

A wife, a true one, 
A woman (I dare say, without vain-glory,) 
Never yet branded with suspicion. 

Loss of her 
That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years 
About his neck, yet never lost her lustre : 
Of her, that loves him with that excellence, 
That angels love good men with : 

If heaven would make me such another world 
Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, 
I'd not have sold her for it. 

He lost a wife, 
Whose beauty did astonish the survey 
Of richest eyes ; whose words all ears took captive ; 
Whose dear perfection, hearts, that scorn'd to serve, 
Humbly call'd mistress. 

Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, 

Is it expected, I should know no secrets 

That appertain to you ? Am I yourself, 

But as it were, in sort, or limitation ; 

To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, 

And talk to you sometimes ? Dwell I but in the suburbs 

Of your good pleasure ? If it be no more, 

Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. 

Should all despair 
That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind 
Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none: 

They do let heaven see the pranks 

They dare not shew their husbands ; their best conscience 

Is — not to leave undone, but keep unknown. 

I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock- 
pigeon over his hen ; more clamorous than a parrot 
against rain ; more new-fangled than an ape ; more giddy 
in my desires than a monkey : I will weep for nothing, 
like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you 
are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and 
that when thou art inclined to sleep. 

A callat, 
Of boundless tongue ; who late hath beat her husband, 
And now baits me ! 



Henry Fill. 



Othello. 



AWs Well That 
Ends Well 



WOMAN— (kind). 

A woman's heart ; which ever yet 
Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty ; 

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; 
And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty 
Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it. 



Julius Ccesar. 



Winter's Tale. 



Othello. 



As You Like It, 



Winter's Tale. 



Henry VIII. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 



ii. 



in. 



ii. 



ii. 



i. 



in. 



IV. 



ii. 



ii. 



243 



CLASSIFICATION. 



WOMAN— (Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



ANSWER 



BEAUTY— PRIDE 

„ —KNOW- 
LEDGE 

„ —WISDOM 



CHILDBIRTH 

CONSCIENCE- 
LIES... 

CONTROL— PAS- 
SION 

CREDULITY 



DETERMINATION 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 









DISLIKES ... 
244 



Have you not heard it said full oft, 

A woman's nay doth stand for nought? 

Maids, in modesty, say No, to that 

Which they would have the proff'rer construe, Ay. 

'Tis beauty, that doth oft make women proud; 

If ladies be but young and fair, 
They have the gift to know it : 

She never yet was foolish that was fair ; 

The pleasing punishment that women bear. 
Women still give the lie to their consciences. 

'Tis government, that makes them seem divine, 

We are soft as our complexions are, 
And credulous to false prints. 

Alas, poor women ! make us but believe, 
Being compact of credit, that you love us , 

Though others have the arm, shew us the sleeve ; 
We in your motion turn, and you may move us. 

What they think in their hearts they may effect, they 
will break their hearts but they will effect. 

Effeminate, changeable, longing, and liking ; proud, 
fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of 
smiles ; for every passion something, and for no passion 
truly any thing, as boys and women are for the most part 
cattle of this colour. . . 

Woman, that is like a German clock, 
Still a-repairing ; ever out of frame ; 
And never going aright, being a watch, 
But being watch'd that it may still go right. 

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth, 
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world ; 
But that our soft conditions, and our hearts, 
Should well agree with our external parts ? 

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible ; 

She that was ever fair, and never proud ; 
Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud ; 
Never lack'd gold, and yet went never gay ; 
Fled from her wish, and yet said, — now I may ; 
She, that, being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, 
Bade her wrong stay, and her displeasure fly ; 
She, that in wisdom never was so frail, 
To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail ; 
She, that could think, and ne'er disclose her mind, 
See suitors following, and not look behind ; 

Their smoothness, like a goodly champaign plain, 
Lays open all the little worms that creep ; 

In men, as in a rough -grown grove, remain 
Cave-killing evils that obscurely sleep : 

Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, 
Poor women's faces are their own faults' books. 

Falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent, — 
Three things that women highly hold in hate. 



Passionate Pil- 
grim. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Henry VI.Pt.$. 

As You Like It. 
Othello. 

Comedy of 
Errors. 

As You Like It. 

He?iry FI.Pt.3. 

Measure for 
Measure. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 

Merry Waives 
of Windsor. 



verse 



1. 



11. 



As You Like It, 



Love" 1 s Labour'' s 
Lost. 



Taming of the 
Shrew. 

Henry Vl.Pt.^. 



Othello. 



Tarquin. 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 



111. 



11. 



in. 



11. 



111. 



11. 



ill. 



CLASSIFICATION. 


WOMAN— CContinued). 


PLAT OE POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


EYES 


Where is any author in the world, 
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


IV. 


3 


,, 


From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : 
They are the ground, the books, the academes, 
From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. 


tt tt 


j> 


tt 


if 


Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, 
And where we are, our learning likewise is. 
Then, when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes, 
Do we not likewise see our learning there : 


it it 


it 


tt 


„ —JUDGMENT 


Ah ! poor our sex ! this fault in us I find, 
The error of our eye directs our mind : 
What error leads, must err : O then conclude, 
Minds, sway'd by eyes, are full of turpitude. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


v. 


2 


FAULTS— VIR- 
TUES 


For several virtues 
Have I liked several women ; never any 
With so full soul, but some defect in her 
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, 
And put it to the foil : 


Tempest. 


in. 


I 


FEARS— LOVE ... 


Women fear too much, even as they love ; 
And women's fear and love hold quantity ; 
In neither aught, or in extremity. 


Hamlet. 


tt 


2 


„ —NATURAL 


A woman naturally born to fears ; 


King John. 


it 


I 


FITNESS 


A woman's fitness comes by fits. 


Cymbeline. 


IV. 


tt 


FLATTERY- 
KINDNESS 


Our praises are our wages : You may ride us, 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 


Winter's Tale. 


I. 


2 


M —WOOING 


Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their graces ; 
Though ne'er so black, say, they have angels' faces, 
That man that hath a tougue, I say, is no man, 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


III. 


I 


FORTUNE (DAME) 


Her benefits are mightily misplaced : and the bountiful 
blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 

makes honest ; and those that she makes honest, she 
makes very ill-favour'dly. 


As You Like It. 


I. 


2 


FRAILTY 


— Let there be no honour, 
Where there is beauty ; truth, where semblance ; love, 
Where theie's another man. 


Cymbeline. 


II. 


4 


11 ... ... 


Women are frail as the glasses where they view 
themselves 
Which are as easy broke as they make forms. 
Women ! — Help Heaven ! men their creation mar 
In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail ; 
For we are soft as our complexions are, 
And credulous to false prints. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


tt 


>! 


11 


Women are not, 
In their best fortunes, strong ; but want will perjure 
The ne'er -touched vestal : 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


III. 


IO 


ii 


— Frailty, thy name is woman ; 


Hamlet. 


I. 


2 


ii 


Men have marble, women waxen, minds, 
And therefore are they form'd as marble will ; 
The weak oppress'd, the impression of strange kinds 
Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill : 
Then call them not the authors of their ill, 
No more than wax shall be accounted evil, 
Wherein is stamp'd the semblance of a devil. 


Tarquin. 







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CLASSIFICATION. 



WOMAN— ( Continued) . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



FRAILTY ... 



GRIEF— WORDS 



INCONSTANCY 



KINDNESS- 
POWER. 

MAIDS v. WIVES . 

MARRIAGE 



POWER 

PRESENTS 

PRIDE— WOOING 

RASH 

REASON ... 

SCORN 
SECRETS ... 



SILENCE— VIRTUE 

SINS 



Oh, let it not be hild 
Poor women's faults, that they are so fulfill'd 
With men's abuses : those proud lords, to blame, 
Make weak-made women tenants to their shame. 

Grief hath two tongues, and never woman yet 
Could rule them both, without ten women's wit. 

Even to vice 
They are not constant, but are changing still 
One vice, but of a minute old, for one 
Not half so old as that. 

Inconstancy 
More in women than in men remain. 

When a world of men 
Could not prevail with all their oratory, 
Yet hath a woman's kindness overruled : — 

Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes 
when they are wives. 

Let thy love be younger than thyself, 
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent : 
For women are as roses, whose fair flower, 
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 

Think women love to match with men, 

And not to live so like a saint : 
Here is no heaven ; they holy then 
Begin, when age doth them attaint. 
Were kisses all the joys in bed, 
One woman would another wed. 

When maidens sue, 
Men give like gods ; but when they weep and kneel, 
All their petitions are as freely theirs, 
As they themselves would owe them. 

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 

More than quick words, do move a woman's mind. 

Being proud, as females are, to see him woo her, 
She puts on outward strangeness, seems unkind ; 

I have shew'd too much 
The rashness of a woman : 

I have no other but a woman's reason : 
I think him so, because I think him so. 

A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her : 

constancy, be strong upon my side ! 

Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue, 

1 have a man's mind, but a woman's might. 
How hard it is for women to keep counsel ! — 



To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue : 

There's no motion, 
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm 
It is the woman's part : Be it lying, note it, 
The woman's ; flattering, hers ; deceiving, hers ; 
Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers ; revenges, hers ; 
Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain, 
Nice longings, slanders, mutability, 
All faults that may be named, nay, that hell knows, 
Why, hers, in part, or all ; but rather, all : 



Tarquin. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



Cymbeline. 

Passionate Pil- 
grim. 

Henry VI.Pl.i. 
As You Like It. 

Twelfth Night. 



ii. 



verse 



ii. 



IV. 



ii. 



Passionate 
Pilgrim. 



Measure for 
Measure. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

Winter's Tale. 

Two Gentlemen 
of Verona, 



verse 



yulius C&sar. 

entlemen 
of Verona 



Cymbeline. 



in. 



in. 

i. 
in. 



ii. 



in. 



ii. 



24-6 



CLASSIFICATION. 


WOMAN— (Co7itmued). 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


so. 


TEARS— GIFT ... 


A woman's gift, 
To rain a shower of commanded tears, 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


Induction. 


„ —SYMPATHY 


Their gentle sex to weep are often willing; 
Grieving themselves to guess at others' smarts : 


Tar qui n. 




I 


TEMPER— DES- 
CRIPTIVE OF 


You are pictures out of doors, 
Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens, 
Saints in your injuries, devils being offended. 


Othello. 


11. 


I 


THOUGHT— AC- 
TION... 


Woman's thought runs before her actions. 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


11 


TOGETHER— UN- 
SOCIABLE 


Two women placed together makes cold weather : 


Henry Fill. 


1. 


4 


TONGUES— JEA- 
LOUS... 


The venom clamours of a jealous woman 
Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


v. 


1 


VANITY 


There was never yet fair woman, but she made mouths 
in a glass. 


King Lear. 


in. 


2 


VIRTUE 


'Tis virtue, that doth make them most admired. 


HenryVI.Pt.3. 


1. 


4 


VOICE— INFLU- 
ENCE... 


Haply, a woman's voice may do some good, 
When articles, too nicely urged, be stood on. 


Henry V. 


v. 


2 


„ —GENTLE... 


Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle and low ; an excellent thing in woman : 


King Lear. 


11 


3 


VOWS 


The vows of women, 
Of no more bondage be to where they are made, 
Than they are to their virtues ; which is nothing : — 


Cymbelme. 


II. 


4 


WEAKNESS 


How weak a thing 
The heart of woman is ! 


yulius Cossar. 


it 


n 


WICKEDNESS ... 


O most delicate fiend ! 
Who is't can read a woman ? 


Cymleline. 


V. 


5 


,, 


Proper deformity seems not in the fiend 
So horrid, as in woman. 


King Lear. 


IV. 


2 


WILL— ALLOWED 


I'll write against them, 
Detest them, curse them. — Yet 'tis greater skill 
In a true hate, to pray they have their will : 
The very devils cannot plague them better. 


Cymheline. 


II. 


5 


WIT 


O, that woman that cannot make her fault her hus- 
band's occasion, let her never nurse her child herself, for 
she will breed it like a fool. 


As You Like It. 


IV. 


1 


jj 


You shall never take her without her answer, unless you 
take her without her tongue. 


n a 


it 


u 


,, 


Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at 
the casement ; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole ; 
stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. 


j> a 


it 


it 


WOOING 


Women are angels, wooing : 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


I. 


2 


,, 


When a woman woos, what woman's son 
Will sourly leave her till she have prevail'd. 


Sonnet 41. 






jj 


We cannot fight for love, as men may do; 

We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 


II. 


tt 


,, 


She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore may be won ; 


Titus 

Andronicus. 


it 


1 



H7 



CLASSIFICATION. 



WOMEN. 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 





WOMEN (individual). 








ACCOMPLISHED... 


She sings like one immortal, and she dances 
As goddess-like to her admired lays : 


Pericles. 


v. 


Go- 


jj 


— So delicate with her needle ! — An admirable musician 1 
O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear ! — Of so 
high and plenteous wit and invention ! 


Othello. 


IV. 


wer 
i 


AGREEABLE- 
GENTLE... 


Thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous ; 
But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers : 
Thou cans't not frown, thou cans't not look askance, 
Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will ; 
Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk ; 
But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers, 
With gentle conference, soft and affable. 


Taming of the 
Shrew. 


ii. 


ii 


AMOROUS 


A whitely wanton with a velvet brow, 
With two pitch balls stuck in her face for eyes ; 
Ay, and, by Heaven, one that will do the deed, 
Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard : 


Love's Labour's 
Lost. 


in. 


ii 


BEAUTIFUL 


All of her, that is out of door, most rich 1 
If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare, 
She is alone the Arabian bird ; 


Cymleline. 


l. 


7 


»> 


She hath all courtly parts more exquisite 
Than lady, ladies, woman ; from every one 
The best she hath, and she, of all compounded, 
Outsells them all. 


n 


in. 


5 


f y 


O thou weed, 

Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet, 

That the sense aches at thee. — 


Othello. 


IV. 


2 


,, 


O, the world hath not a sweeter creature : she might lie 
by an emperor's side, and command him tasks. 


11 


11 


T 


,, 


A maid, 
That paragons description, and wild fame ; 
One, that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, 
And in the essential vesture of creation, 
Does bear all excellency. — 


11 


II. 


ii 


>? 


Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 

Her infinite variety : Other women 

Cloy th' appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry, 

Where most she satisfies. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


11 


2 


IT 


She is a theme of honour and renown ; 

A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds ; 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


11 


ii 


1* 


Kate, like the hazel-twig, 
Is straight and slender ; and as brown in hue 
As hazel-nuts, and sweeter than the kernels. 


Taming of the 
Shrew 


11 


I 


If 


Women will love her, that she is a woman 
More worth than any man ; men, that she is 
The rarest of all women. 


Winter's Tale. 


V. 


ii 


,, 


She's beautiful ; and therefore to be woo'd ; 
She is a woman ; therefore to be won. 


Henry VLPt.x. 


11 


3 


11 


If I could write the beauty of your eyes, 

And in fresh numbers number all your graces, 

The age to come would say, this poet lies, 

Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces. 


Sonnet i'j. 






„ —FOOLISH 


Her beauty and her brain go not together. She's a 
good sign, but I have seen small reflection of her wit. 


Cymleline. 


I. 


ii 



248 



CLASSIFICATION. 


WOMEN — (Continued), 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


BEAUTIFUL— GAY 


I know a wench of excellent discourse, — 
Pretty and witty : wild, and yet, too, gentle : — 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


in. 


I 


„ —GOOD... 


Her dispositions she inherits, which make fair gifts 
fairer ; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, 
there commendation goes with pity, they are virtues and 
traitors too : in her, they are the better for their simpleness ; 
she derives her honesty, and achieves her goodness. 


AWs Well That 
Ends Well. 


i. 


J> 


„ —WISE ... 


She is young, wise, fair ; 
In these to nature she's immediate heir ; 
And these breed honour 


>> tt 


ii. 


3 


COY 


So opposite to marriage, that she shunn'd 
The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, 


Othello. 


i. 


2 


„ —CHASTE ... 


She will not stay the siege of loving terms, 

Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, 

Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold : 

O, she is rich in beauty ; only poor, 

That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


>> 


I 


EXPRESSIONLESS 


Her motion and her station are as one : 
She shews a body rather than a life; 
A statue, than a breather. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


in. 


3 


FALLEN 


Conceal her 
(As best befits her wounded reputation) 
In some reclusive and religious life, 
Out of all eyes, tongues, minds, and injuries. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


IV. 


i 


>> 


O, she is fallen 
Into a pit of ink ! that the wide sea 
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again; 
And salt too little, which may season give 
To her foul tainted flesh ! 


>> n 


n 


tf 


FALSE— DENOUN- 
CING... 


Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, 
I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, 
To prey at fortune. 


Othello. 


in. 


3 


FAT 


No longer from head to foot, than from hip to hip ; she 
is spherical, like a globe ; I could find out countries in 
her. 


Comedy of 
Errors. 


j) 


2 


,, 


I know not what use to put her to, but to make a lamp 
of her, and run from her by her own light. I warrant, her 
rags, and the tallow in them, will burn a Poland winter : 
If she lives till doomsday she'll burn a week longer than 
the whole world. 


SI tt 


a 


tf 


GOOD 


'Twas a good lady : we may pick a thousand salads, 
ere we light on such another herb. 


All's Well That 
Ends Well. 


IV. 


5 


KIND— GOOD ... 


She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, 
that she holds it a vice in her goodness, not to do more 
than she is requested : 


Othello. 


II. 


3 


MERRY 


There's little of the melancholy element in her, my 
lord : she is never sad, but when she sleeps ; 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


tt 


T 


MODEST 


A maiden never bold ; 
Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion 
Blush' d at herself ; 


Othello. 


I. 


3 


PERFECT 


If, one by one, you wedded all the world, 
Or from the all, that are, took something good, 
To make a perfect woman ; she, .... 
Would be unparallel'd. 


Winter's Tale. 


V. 


i 



249 



CLASSIFICATION. 


WOMEN— (Continued) . 


PLAY OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


PLAIN 


She is too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair 
praise, and too little for a great praise : only this com- 
mendation I can afford her, — that were she other than she 
is, she were unhandsome : and being no other but as she 
is, I do not like her. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


I. 


I 


PROUD 


Nature never framed a woman's heart 
Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice : 


>> ff 


in. 


J> 


SEDUCED v. SE- 
DUCER 


No man inveigh against the wither'd flower, 

But chide rough winter that the flower hath kill'd ! 

Not that devour'd, but that which doth devour, 
Is worthy blame. 


Tarquin. 






SELF-LOVING ... 


She cannot love, 
Nor take no shape nor project of affection, 
She is so self endeared. 


Much Ado 
1 About Nothing. 


>> 


>> 


SIMPLE— TRACT- 
ABLE 


An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised : 
Happy in this, she is not yet so old 
But she may learn ; and happier than this, 
She is not bred so dull but she can learn; 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


>> 


4 


WICKED— DES- 
CRIPTIVE 


Down from the waist they are centaurs, 
Though women all above: 


King Lear, 


IV. 


6 


,, 


Howe'er thou art a fiend, 
A woman's shape doth shield thee. 


» 


>> 


» 


,, 


Behold yon simpering dame, 

Whose face between her forks presageth snow ; 

That minces virtue, and doth shake the head 

To hear of pleasure's name ; 

The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't 

With a more riotous appetite. 


17 


>> 


a 


WIDOW 


A beauty-waning and distressed widow, 
Even in the afternoon of her best days, 
Make prize and purchase of his wanton eye, 


Richard III. 


in. 


7 


WITTY 


The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen 

As is the razor's edge invisible, 
Cutting a smaller hair than can be seen : 

Above the sense of sense : so sensible 
Seemeth their conference ; their conceits have wings, 
Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things. 


Love' s Labour' s 
Lost. 


V. 


2 


—VAIN ... 


Her wit 
Values itself so highly, that to her 
All matter else seems weak. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


III. 


I 




WORDS (see also talk). 








ANGRY 


I understand a fury in your words, 
But not the words. 


Othello. 


IV. 


2 


» 


Fie ! what man of good temper would endure this 
tempest of exclamation ? 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


II. 


I 


v. BLOWS 


Good words are better than bad strokes, 


Julius Ccesar. 


V. 


>> 


BUT— YET 


I do not like but yet, it does allay 
The good precedence ; fy upon, but yet : 
But yet is a jailor to bring forth 
Some monstrous malefactor. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


II. 


5 


CONSOLATION ... 


Words are words ; I never yet did hear 
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear. 


Othello. 


I. 


3 



250 



CLASSIFICATION. 



WORDS— fContinued). 



PLAT OE POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



v. DEEDS ... 

DYING— MEN 
GRIEF 



HOUSEHOLD 
IDLE 



IF 

v. MATTER 



PUNNING 



UNHEEDED 

UNSPOKEN- 
UNDERSTOOD 

WAS— IS 

YES— NO 



CHANGES... 



END— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF. 



STAGE 



" 



251 



'Tis a kind of good deed, to say well : 
And yet words are no deeds. 

Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. 

Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain ; 
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. 

Let them have scope : though what they do impart 
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. 

Windy attorneys to their client woes, 
Airy succeeders of intestate joys, 
Poor breathing orators of miseries ! 

Familiar in his mouth as household words, 

Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools ! 

Unprofitable sounds, weak arbitrators ! 
Busy yourselves in skill-contending schools ; 

Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters : 

Your If is the only peace-maker ; much virtue in If 

The fool hath planted in his memory 
An army of good words : And I do know 
A many fools, that stand in better place, 
Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word 
Defy the matter. 

How every fool can play upon the word ! I think, the 
best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence ; and dis- 
course grow commendable in none only but parrots. — 

They that dally nicely with words, may quickly make 
them wanton. 

You cram these words into mine ears against 
The stomach of my sense : 

Like the deadly bullet of a gun, 
His meaning struck her, ere his words begun. 

Was is not is : 

Maids, in modesty, say No, to that 
Which they would have the proff'rer construe, Ay. 



WORLD (the). 



O world, thy slippery turns ! 

World, world, O world ! 
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, 
Life would not yield to age. 

Like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud clapp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack behind. 

I hold the world but as the world, . . 
A stage, where every man must play a part, 
And mine a sad one. 

All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players : 



Henry VIII. 
Macbeth. 

Richard II. 

Richard III. 

» n 

Henry V. 



Tarquin. 

As You Like It. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



» v 



Twelfth Night, 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 



Coriolanus. 



King Lear. 



Tempest. 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



As You Like It. 



11. 



Tempest. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 

As You Like It J 1 in 



in. 
11. 



IV. 



in. 



1. 



IV. 



II. 



CLASSIFICATION. 


WORLD— (Continued) . 


PLAT OR POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


TROUBLES— DAN- 
GERS 


I am amazed, methinks ; and lose my way 
Among the thorns and dangers of this world. — 


King John. 


IV. 


3 


WICKEDNESS ... 


O monstrous world ! Take note, take note, O world, 
To be direct and honest is not safe. — 


Othello. 


in. 


» 


,, 


The world is grown so bad, 
That wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch : 


Richard III. 


i. 


>> 


WRETCHEDNESS 


How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, 

Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 

Fie on't ! O fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden, 

That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, 

Possess it merely. 


Hamlet. 


>> 


2 


j, 


This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a steril pro- 
montory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, — 
this brave o'er-hanging firmament — this majestical roof 
fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to 
me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 


>> 


ii. 


" 




WORMS. 








FISHING 


The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish 
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, 
And greedily devour the treacherous bait : 


Much Ado 
about Nothing. 


in. 


I 


>t •" 


A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a 
king ; and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. 


Hamlet. 


IV. 


3 


FOOD 


Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all 
creatures else, to fat us : and we fat ourselves for mag- 
gots. Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but vari- 
able service ; two dishes, but to one table ; that's the end. 


tt 


>> 


jj 


OPPRESSION 


The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 


Henry VI.Pt.%. 


ii. 


2 


,, 


The blind mole casts 
Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell, the earth is wrong'd 
By man's oppression : and the poor worm doth die for't. 


Pericles. 


i. 


I 


TOMBS 


Gilded tombs do worms infold. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


ii. 


7 




WOUNDS. 








BOASTING 


To such as boasting shew their scars, 
A mock is due. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


IV. 


5 


FAME— HONOR ... 


Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or 
take away the grief of a wound ? 


Henry IV. Pt.i. 


V. 


i 


FATAL— DESCRIP- 
TIVE OF 


'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church- 
door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, 
and you shall find me a grave man. 


Romeo and 
Juliet. 


III. 


>> 


JEST— UNFELT ... 


He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 


n » 


II. 


2 


LOVE 


Love, love, nothing but love, still more ! 

For, oh, love's bow 

Shoots buck and doe : 

The shaft confounds 

Not that it wounds, 
But tickles still the sore. 


Troilus and 
Cressida. 


III. 


I 



252 



CLASSIFICATION. 



WOUNDS— (Continued). 



PLAY OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



LOVE 



PATIENCE— HEAL- 
ING... 

SELF-INFLICTED 

SORES— DOG'S 

TONGUE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



LAW 



ACCOMPLISHED 



v. AGE 



>> >> 



» »i 



» >> 



These lovers cry — Oh ! oh ! they die ! 

Yet that, which seems the wound to kill, 
Doth turn oh ! oh ! to ha ! ha ! he ! 

So dying love lives still : 
Oh ! oh ! a while, but ha ! ha ! ha ! 
Oh ! oh ! groans out for ha ! ha ! ha I 

How poor are they that have not patience ! 
What wound did ever heal but by degrees ? 

Those wounds heal ill, that men do give themselves 

Licking of his wound, 
'Gainst venom'd seres the only sovereign plaster ; 



WRONG (s). 



Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. 

To persist 
In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong, 
But makes it much more heavy. 

When law can do no right, 
Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong ; 



YOUTH. 

Full of quality ; 
They're loving, well composed, with gifts of nature flowing, 
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise ; 

A well-accomplish'd youth, 
Of all that virtue love, for virtue loved : 
Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill ; 
For he hath wit to make an ill shape good, 
And shape to win grace though he had no wit. 

Crabbed age and youth 

Cannot live together ; 
Youth is full of pleasance, 

Age is full of care : 
Youth like summer morn, 

Age like winter weather ; 
Youth like summer brave, 

Age like winter bare. 

Youth is full of sport, 
Age's breath is short, 

Youth is nimble, age is lame ; 
Youth is hot and bold, 
Age is weak and cold ; 

Youth is wild, and age is tame. 

Sad pause and deep regard beseem the sage : 

My part is youth, and beats these from the stage : • 

Youth no less becomes 
The light and careless livery that it wears, 
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, 
Importing health and graveness. — 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Othello. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Venus and 
Adonis. 



Richard III. 

Troilus and 
Cressida. 

King John 



in. 



ii. 



m. 



Troilus and 
Cressida. 



Love's Labour's 
Lost. 



Passionate Pil- 
grim. 



» » 



Tar qum. 



Hamlet. 



v. 



ii. 



in. 



IV. 



ii. 



verse 



IV. 



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CLASSIFICATION. 



YOUTH— (Continued^ . 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 



v. A.GE 

AMBITION... 

,, 
BEAUTY ... 
BRAVE 



CELIBACY.. 



COUNCIL— FUTILE 



DESCRIPTIVE OF— 
SPIRITED 

„ —SCHOOL- 
BOY .. 

FICKLENESS 



GRAVE 



HOME-KEEPING ... 

INFLUENCE- 
FEMININE 



JUDGMENT- 
WEAK. 



KNOWLEDGE- 
FUTURE 

LASCIVIOUS 



LEVITY 



You, that are old, consider not the capacities of us that 
are young : you measure the heat of our livers with the 
bitterness of your galls : 

O foolish youth ! 
Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. 

The spirit of a youth 
That means to be of note, begins betimes. — 

The tender spring upon thy tempting lip 

Shows thee unripe : yet may'st thou well be tasted ; 

By his light, 
Did all the chivalry of England move 
To do brave acts : he was, indeed, the glass 
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. 

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age ; 
doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion : 

Vow, alack, for youth unmeet ; 
Youth so apt to pluck a sweet. 

The brain may devise laws for the blood : but a hot 
temper leaps over a cold decree : such a hare is madness 
the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the 
cripple. 

As full of spirit as the month of May, 
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; 
Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. 

The whining school-boy, with his satchel, 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. 

Young spirits, whose apprehensive senses 
All but new things disdain ; whose judgments are 
Mere fathers of their garments ; whose constancies 
Expire before their fashions : — 

The gravity and stillness of your youth 

The world have noted, and your name is great 

In mouths of wisest censure : 

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits : 

In her youth 
There is a prone and speechless dialect, 
Such as moves men : 

My salad days ; 
When I was green in judgment : — 

How green are you, and fresh in this old world ! 

The untainted virtue of your years 
Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit : 

The happiest youth, — viewing his progress through, 
What perils past, what crosses to ensue, — 
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. 

A man can no more separate age and covetousness, 
than he can part young limbs and lechery : 

Lascivious metres ; to whose venom sound 
The open ear of youth doth always listen ; 

Our own precedent passions do instruct us 
What levity's in youth. 



Henry IV.Pt.2. 


i. 


» » 


TV. 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


>> 


Venus and 
Adonis. 




HenryIV.Pt.2. 


11. 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


I. 


Love's Labour 's 
Lost. 


TV. 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


I. 


Henry IV.Pt.i. 


IV. 


As You Like It. 


II. 


AW s Well That 
Ends Well. 


I. 


Othello. 


II. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


I. 


Measure for 
Measure. 


ft 


Antony and 
Cleopatra. 


>> 


King yohn. 


III. 


Richard III. 


>> 


Henry IV. Pt. 2. 


ft 


n >> 


I. 


Richard II. 


II. 


Timon of 
Athens. 


I. 



254 



CLASSIFICATION. 



YOUTH— (Continued). 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. 



SC. 



LOVE 



MARRIAGE 
MELANCHOLY 

REFORMED 



RESTRAINT 

SIN 

ft 

SLEEP 
TRANSIENT 



As the most forward bud 
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, 
Even so by love the young and tender wit 
Is turned to folly ; blasting in the bud, 
Losing his verdure even in the prime, 
And all the fair effects of future hopes. 

Young men's love then lies 
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. 

A fashion, and a toy in blood ; 
A violet in the youth of primy nature, 
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, 
The perfume and suppliance of a minute ; 
No more. 

Love is too young to know what conscience is ; 

A young man, married, is a man that's marr'd : 

He hears merry tales and smiles not : I fear he will 
prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being 
so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. 

The courses of his youth promised it not. 
The breath no sooner left his father's body, 
But that his wildness mortified in him, 
Seem'd to die too : 

Never was such a sudden scholar made ; 

Never came reformation in a flood, 

With such a. heady current, scouring faults ; 

Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness 

So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, 

Consideration like an angel came, 

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him ; 

Leaving his body as a paradise, 

To envelop and contain celestial spirits. 

You shall find, his vanities forespent 
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, 
Covering discretion with a coat of folly : 

Deal mildly with his youth ; 
For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. 

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. 

In the morn and liquid dew of youth, 
Contagious blastments are most imminent. 

Where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain 

Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign : 

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, 
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, 

Thy youth's proud livery, so gaz'd on now, 
Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held: 

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame 

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell. 
Will play the tyrants to the very same, 

And that unfair, which fairly doth excel, 
For never-resting time leads summer on 

To hideous winter and confounds him there ; 
Sap-check' d with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, 

Beauty o'er-snow'd, and bareness every where : 



Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 

Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Hamlet. 

Sonnet 151. 

All's Well That 
Ends Well. 

Merchant of 
Venice. 



Henry V. 



11. 



11. 



Richard II. 
Hamlet. 



Romeo and 
Juliet. 



Sonnet 2. 



11. 



1. 



11. 



Z55 



CLASSIFICATION. 


YOUTH— CContin uedj . 


PLAT OK POEM. 


ACT. 


sc. 


TRANSIENT 


Everything that grows 
Holds in perfection but a little moment : 
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shews 
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment ; 


Sonnet 15. 






>$ 


Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 
And summer's lease hath all too short a date : 


» 18. 






WHISKERS 


He that hath a beard is more than a youth ; and he 
that hath no beard, is less than a man : 


lluch Ado 
AloutNothi?ig. 


11. 


I 


WILD 


His addiction was to courses vain : 
His companions unletter'd, rude, and shallow; 
His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports ; 
And never noted in him any study, 










Any retirement, any sequestration 
From open haunts and popularity. 


Henry V. 


1. 


>> 


WISE 


I never knew so young a body with so old a head. 

* 


Merchant of 
Venice. 


IV. 


» 




ADDENDA. 



AXIOMS, PROVERBS, SIMILES AND ODD SAYINGS. 



PLAY. 



ACT. SC. 



The time is out of joint 
O, my prophetic soul ! my uncle I 
I am native here, and to the manner born,— 
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark . . . 
Springes to catch woodcocks .... 
Season your admiration for a while with an attent ear ; 
We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us. 
/,The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 
Here's metal more attractive .... 
By and by is easily said .... 
'Twas caviare to the general . . ■ . 
Hyperion to a satyr ; 

Look here, upon this picture, and on this, 
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works : 
'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd. 
Lay not that nattering unction to your soul. 
Your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. 
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 
I must be cruel, only to be kind. 
I know a hawk from a handsaw. 
Dead, for a ducat, dead ! 
A hit, a very palpable hit. 
Very like a whale. 
Angels and ministers of grace defend us I 



Hamlet. 



v. 



in. 



ii. 



i„ 



in. 



V. 

I. 

III. 
II. 

III. 

V. 

III. 
I. 



I 

4 
i 

2 

4 

2 

4 

2 

3 
4 



*57 



ADDENDA. 



PLAT. 



ACT. 


sc. 


III. 


I 


>> 


2 


I. 


>> 


>> 


5 


III. 


2 


II. 
IV. 





The observed of all observers. 

They fool me to the top of my bent. 

In my mind's eye, Horatio. 

Methinks I scent the morning air ... 

It out-herods Herod : 

'Tis true 'tis pity ; and pity 'tis 'tis true : 

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. 

Sweets to the sweet : 

Like Niobe, all tears : 

A little more than kin, and less than kind. 

There's the rub ; 

To be, or not to be : that is the question. 

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 

Rich, not gaudy ; 

The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 
No traveller returns, 

The thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to, 

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba ? 

There's the respect 

That makes calamity of so long life ; 

l/ The spurns 

That patient merit of the unworthy takes, 

Makes us rather bear those ills we have 
Than fly to others that we know not of ? 

The whips and scorns of time, 

Conscience does make cowards of us all ; 

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, 
The insolence of office, 

Lose the name of action. — 

To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 

V /Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 

vWe have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it ; 

The cry is still ' They come :' 

1 Amen ' stuck in my throat. 



Hamlet. 



Macbeth. 



" 



in. 



in. 



ii. 



in. 



in. 



ii. 



25 8 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. 



ACT. SC. 



If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well 
It were done quickly : 

By the pricking of my thumbs, 
Something wicked this way comes : — 

I would applaud thee to the very echo, 

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, 

Hang out our banners on the outward walls ; 

Stand not upon the order of your going, 
But go at once. 

Thou cream-faced loon ! 

You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, 
With most admired disorder. 

Lay on, Macduff, 

And damn'd be him that first cries ' Hold, enough !' 

Turn, hell-hound, turn, 

Open, locks, 
Whoever knocks. 

I have no spur 
To prick the sides of my intent, 

The labour we delight in physics pain. 

Out, damned spot ! out I say ! 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ? 

Screw your courage to the sticking place, 

Curses, not loud but deep, 

Therein the patient must minister to himself. 

I dare do all that may become a man ; 
Who dares do more is none. 

Is this a dagger which I see before me, . . . ? 

\/Mttx life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; 

[y False face must hide what the false heart doth know. 

Nothing in his life 
Became him like the leaving it ; 

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, 
And health on both ! 

The crack of doom. 

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. 

Letting ' I dare not' wait upon ' I would,' 



Macbeth. 



IV. 



i. 



v. 



in. 



v. 



in. 



V. 



IV. 



I. 



II. 



V. 



V. 



II. 



III. 



III. 



IV. 



3 

5 

4 

2 



259 



ADDENDA. 



PLAT. 



ACT. SC. 





At least we'll die with harness on our back. 


Macleth. 


V. j 


5 




I have supp'd full with horrors ; 


jj 


M 


jj 




Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. 


JJ 


» 


jj 




Even-handed justice. 


JJ 


I- 


' 




Full o' the milk of human kindness. 


JJ 


JJ 


i 




When shall we three meet again ? 


JJ 


JJ 


i 




The obscure bird, clamour'd the livelong night . . 


JJ 


11. 


3 




Throw physic to the dogs ; I'll none of it . 


JJ 


V. 


jj 




I am a man again. 


JJ 


111. 


4 




Stands Scotland where it did ? 


JJ 


IV. 


3 




Your face, my thane, is as a book where men 
May read strange matters. 


>J 


I. 


5 




Most disastrous chances, 

Of moving accidents by flood and field, 

Of hair-breath 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; 


Othello. 


JJ 


3 




I am declined into the vale of years, — 


w 


111. 


>j 




After every tempest comes such calms, 


>> 


II. 


i 


- ' 


Othello's occupation's gone. 


JJ 


III. 


3 




Most lame and impotent conclusion. 


JJ 


II. 


i 




The very head and front of my offending 
Hath this extent, no more. 


JJ 


I. 


3 




Though other things grow fair against the sun, 
Yet fruits, that blossom first, will first be ripe: 


JJ 


II. 


>> 




There's many a beast . . . . in a populous city, 
And many a civil monster. 


JJ 


IV. 


i 




This denoted a foregone conclusion : 


JJ 


111. 


3 




I am nothing if not critical . . . 


JJ 


II. 


i 




Poor and content is rich, and rich enough, 


:> 


III. 


3 




Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice : 


jj 


V. 


2 




Suckle fools and chronicle small beer. 


jj 


II. 


I 




w-They laugh that win. 


jj 


IV. 


jj 




The big wars, that make ambition virtue. 


JJ 


III. 


3 




O, what damned minutes tells he o'er 

Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves ! 


if 


JJ 


JJ 




Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war ! 


11 


JJ 


JJ 



260 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. 



ACT. SC. 



' Trifles light as air, 

Potations pottle-deep ; 

The spirit-stirring drum, 

Moving accidents by flood and field. 

Who steals my purse steals trash ; 

Confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ: 

Still as the grave. 

When devils will their blackest sins put on, 
They suggest at first with heavenly shows, 

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone 
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended ; 

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief ; 

I never yet did hear 

That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear. 

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, 

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. 

I will a round un varnish' d tale deliver . . 

Rude am I in my speech, 

And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace : 

Not wisely but too well ; 

Dull not device by coldness and delay. 

The lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient. 

Why, this is a more exquisite song than the other. 

My muse labours and thus she is deliver'd : 

'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful : 

How poor are they that have not patience ! — 
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees ?<- 

She puts her tongue a little in her heart, 
And chides with thinking . . . 

But yet the pity of it, Iago ! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago. 

Cassio's a proper man ; 

The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, 

I know a trick worth two of that, 

The poor abuses of the time want countenance. 



Othello. 



Henry IF.Pt.i. 



in. 
11. 
in. 
i. 
m. 

>> 
v. 

ii. 



ii. 



i. 



V. 



II. 



II. 



IV. 



II. 



261 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. 



ACT. SC. 





He was but as the cuckoo is in June, 
Heard, not regarded; 


Henry 


IF.Pt.i. 


III. 


2 




Treason is but trusted like the fox, 


>> 


>> 


V. 


» 




I could brain him with his lady's fan, 


!> 


it 


II. 


3 




Tell truth and shame the devil. 


Si 


!S 


III. 


i 




Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? 


>> 


J> 


)> 


3 




• 
A wild trick of his ancestors. 


)> 


it 


V. 


2 




He doth give us bold advertisment, 


)> 


ft 


IV. 


I 




To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast 
Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. 


>> 


>> 


>> 


2 




I could have better spared a better man, 


>» 


it 


V. 


4 




Betwixt the wind and his nobility . . . 


»1 


it 


I. 


3 




All the currents of a heady fight . . . 


)» 


n 


II. 


n 




Nothing can seem foul to those that win. 


>> 


n 


V. 


i 




Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere ; 


)> 


it 


>> 


4 




Fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. 


J> 


}> 


J> 


>> 




Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 


V 


j> 


II. 


3 




God save the mark ! — 


*» 


>» 


I. 


» 




But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, 
I'll cavil, on the ninth part of a hair. 


>> 


n 


III. 


i 




The better part of valour is — discretion. 


>? 


>> 


V. 


4 




Grow like Hydra's heads. 


JJ 


j> 


>> 


>> 




Or sink or swim. 


)> 


>y 


I. 


3 




I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 


J> 


>> 


III. 


i 




The bitter cross. 


»> 


>> 


I. 


>» 




In poison there is physic ; 


Henry 


lV.Pt.2. 


>> 


» 




Wake not a sleeping wolf. 


»> 


>> 


>> 


^ 




Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds ; 


!> 


>> 


IV. 


4 




The spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. 


1? 


M 


II. 


2 




'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb 
In the dead carrion . . . 


1) 


>> 


IV. 


4 




A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse. 


»» 


}} 


V. 


i 




Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought : 


ft 


J> 


IV. 


5 




A rotten case abides no handling. 


ft 


>> 


1* 


i 



16% 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. 



ACT. SC. 



263 



Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep ; 

A good wit will make use of anything : 

In everything the purpose must weigh with the folly. 

Honey'd sentences. 

Wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, 
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. 

There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a 
river at Monmouth : 

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. 

The gentler gamester is the soonest winner. 

A fool's bolt is soon shot. 

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 
As self -neglecting. 

Ill-will never said well . . . 

Familiar in his mouth as household words. 

Covering discretion with a coat of folly ; 

Give the devil his due. 

A squire of low degree. 

Friendly counsel cuts off many foes. 

Delays have dangerous ends. 

Unbidden guests 

Are often welcomest when they are gone. 

She is beautiful and therefore may be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore may be won. 

They say a crafty knave doth need no broker ; 

Rules the roast . . 

Small curs are not regarded when they grin ; 
But great men tremble when the lion roars ; 

A subtle traitor needs no sophister. 

Drones suck not eagles' blood but rob bee-hives : 

The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. 

Great men have reaching hands : 

Small things make base men proud : 

As dead as a door -nail, 

A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. 



Henry lF.Pt.2. III. 



Henry F. 



Henry VLPt.i. 



11. 
1. 



IV. 



11. 



in. 



11. 



in. 



IV. 



11. 



111. 



in. 



Henry ri.Pt.2, 



11. 

v. 
1. 



in. 



IV. 



in. 



IV. 



III. 



ADDENDA. 



PLAT. 



ACT. SC. 





I can give the loser leave to chide. 


Henry VI.Pt.2. 


in. 


I 




The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 


Henry FLPt.3. 


11. 


2 




Beggars mounted run their horse to death. 


11 11 


1. 


4 




Birds of self -same feather. 


n >) 


in. 


3 




When the fox hath once got in his nose, 

He'll soon find means to make the body follow. 


11 » 


IV. 


7 




Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. 


11 11 


11 


1 




A little fire is quickly trodden out, 

Which being suffer' d rivers cannot quench. 


11 11 


>> 


8 




Things ill -got had ever bad success. 


11 11 


n. 


2 




Trust not him that hath once broken faith, 


11 11 


IV. 


4 




When the lion fawns upon the lamb, 
The lamb will never cease to follow him. 


11 11 


11 


8 




The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 


11 11 


V. 


6 




All hoods make not monks. 


Henry Fill. 


III. 


i 




To climb steep hills, 
Requires slow pace at first. 




I. 


11 




Be just, and fear not : 




III. 


2 




Words are no deeds. 




11 


ii 




Corruption wins not more than honesty. 




)> 


11 




Two women placed together makes cold weather : 




I. 


4 


• 


'Tis a cruelty 

To load a falling man. 




V. 


2 




» Truth loves open dealing. 




III. 


1 




Deliver all with charity. 




I. 


2 




Press not a falling man too far : 




III. 


>i 




A golden sorrow. 




II. 


3 




These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse, 
And fight for bitten apples . . . 




V. 


4 




Our content is our best having. 




II. 


3 




Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself : 




I. 


1 




A still and quiet conscience. 




III. 


2 


• 


We may outrun, 

By violent swiftness, that which we run at, 

And lose by over -running. 


11 


I. 


1 



264 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. 



ACT. SC. 



The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er, 
In seeming to augment it, wastes it. 

Bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; 

Good easy man . . 

They love not poison, that do poison need, 

Since the more fair and crystal is the sky, 
The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. 

Direct not him whose way himself will choose : 

Watching breeds leanness. 

Two, together weeping, make one woe. 

Urge doubts to them that fear. 

They well deserve to have, 

That know the strong'st and surest way to get. 

Where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain, 

More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before I 



A beggar begs that never begg'd before. 

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite 
The man that mocks at it and sets it ligrht. 



Truth hath a quiet breast. 

Misery makes sport to mock itself : 

The last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, 

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. 

There is no virtue like necessity. 

Patience is stale, and I am weary of it, 

Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod, 

Pride must have a fall, 

Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. 

Everything is left at six and seven, 

Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short ; 

He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes ; 

I will stand the hazard of the die : 

Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. 

A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! 

Pitchers have ears. 



Henry VIII. 



Richard II. 



265 



Richard III. 



111. 

»> 
v. 

1. 
11. 

j> 

V. 

II. 

(II. 

II. 



I, 



II. 



V. 



II. 



II. 



II. 



II. 



5 
1 

5 
2 

1 
1 
4 



1 " 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. 



ACT. SC. 



Victory sits on our helm. 

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace: 

Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch : 

Short summers lightly have a forward spring. 

The graceless action of a heavy hand, 

Who dares not stir by day must walk by night, 

Strong reasons make strong actions : 

Near or far off, well won is still well shot, 

He, that stands upon a slippery place, 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up : 

What, shall they seek the lion in his den, 

And fright him there? and make him tremble there? 

He talks to me that never had a son. 

The breath of heaven hath blown his spirit out, 
And strew'd repentant ashes on his head. 

A dog's obeyed in office. — 

Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest 
it break thy neck with following it : 

Every inch a king ; 

<• Striving to better, oft we mar what's well* 

Thou whoreson zed ! thou unnecessary letter ! — 

The present eye praises the present object : 

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. 

We must use expostulation kindly, 
For it is parting from us : 

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy : 

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin — 

The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break, 

Blunt wedges rive hard knots. 

To make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence, 

He that will have a cake out of the wheat 
Must needs tarry the grinding. 

The ends crowns all, 

What is aught but as 'tis valued ? 



Richard 111. 


V. 


3 


>> 


II. 


4 


>> 


I. 


3 


5J 


III. 


i 


King John. 


IV. 


3 


}) 


I. 


i 


)> 


III. 


4 


5J 


I. 


i 


>> 


III. 


4 


>> 


V. 


i 


11 


III. 


4 


17 


IV. 


i 


King Lear. 


)> 


6 


j' 


11. 


4 


>> 


IV. 


6 


>» 


I. 


4 


>> 


II. 


2 


Troilus and 






Cressida. 


III. 


3 


>> >> 


11. 


it 


>> >y 


IV. 


4 


it iy 


II. 


3 


)> »> 


III. 


V 


>> >> 


>} 


)} 


>j >> 


I. 


»> 


>> M 


III. 


I 


)> If 


I. 


)) 


>5 >> 


IV. 


5 


J5 >> 


• 


2 



266 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. 



ACT. SC. 



Spare your arithmetic : 
Once, and a million ! 

I speak against my present profit ; but my wish hath a 
preferment in't. 

This fierce abridgement 

Hath to its circumstantial branches, which 

Distinction should be rich in: — 

Wide difference 

'Twixt amorous and villainous. 

Strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. 

One that converses more with the buttock of the night, 
than with the forehead of the morning. 

'Tis odds beyond arithmetic : 

Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? mark you 
His absolute shall ? 

He is a lion that I am proud to hunt. 

This must be patch'd 
With cloth of any colour. 

Poor suitors have strong breaths : 

One fire drives out one fire ; one nail, one nail ; 
Rights by rights falter, strength by strength do fail. 

He's vengence proud, 



Make passionate my sense of hearing. 

Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy. — 

I am ill at reckoning, it fitteth the spirit of a tapster. 

Devise wit ; write, pen ; for I am for whole volumes in 
folio. 

Seldom, when 

The steeled gaoler is the friend of men. — 

Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven, 
Intends you for his swift ambassador, 

Every true man's apparel fits your thief. 

The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart 
Goes all decorum. 

Might there not be a charity in sin . . . 

Good counsellors lack no clients 

Let's to supper 

And drown consideration. 



Cymbeline. 



Coriolanus. 



5J 



ii. 



v. 



ii. 



m. 



Love's Labour' 1 s 
Lost. 



Measure for 
Measure. 



in. 



IV. 

ii. 
in. 

IV. 



in. 



IV. 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



i. 



ii. 



IV. 



z6j 



ADDENDA. 



PLAT. 



ACT. SC. 






'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp, 
Than with an old one dying. 

It beggar'd all description : 

He has a cloud in's face. 

Small to greater matters must give way. 

Wishers were ever fools, — 

I know that a woman is a dish for the gods, 

There is never a fair woman has a true face. 

It argues a distemper' d head, 

So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed : 

Riddling confession finds but riddling shift. 

Ancient damnation ! 

Tempt not a desperate man ; 

A plague o' both your houses ! 

He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 

A beggarly account of empty boxes, 

My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne ; 

As an egg is full of meat, 

Too early seen unknown, and known too late ! 

The weakest kind of fruit 
Drops earliest to the ground, 

Fast bind, fast find ; 

It is a wise father that knows his own child. 

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. 

Now infidel, I have you on the hip. 

Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice ? 

Do all men kill the things they do not love ? 

I have but kill'd a fly. 

But how, if that fly had a father and a mother ? 
How would he hang his slender gilded wings, 
And buzz lamenting doings in the air ? 

More water glideth by the mill 

Than wots the miller of : and easy it is 

Of a cut loaf to steal a shire, 

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, 

And is not careful what they mean thereby, 



Antony and 
Cleopatra. 



Romeo and 
Juliei. 



♦> >> 



Merchant of 
Venice. 



Titus 

Andronicus. 



>> >> 



>> » 



iu. 
ii. 
in. 
ii. 

IV. 

v. 
n. 



ii 

2 



III. 



III. 



II. 



V. 



III. 



IV. 



II. 



IV. 



III. 



II. 



IV. 



268 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. ACT. SC. 





Every mother breeds not sons alike : 


Titus 

Andronicus. 


II. 


3 




I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 
Than such a Roman. 


Julius Ccesar. 


IV. 


55 




Men may construe things after their fashion, 
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. 


55 


I. 


55 




Those that with haste will make a mighty fire, 
Begin it with weak straws : 


55 


>> 


5» 




It is the bright day that brings forth the adder ; 


» 


II. 


I 




O, what a fall was there, 


>> 


III. 


2 




Y This was the most unkindest cut of all ; 


»> 


55 


55 




The choice and master spirits of this age. 


» 


55 


I 




It was Greek to me. . . 


it 


I. 


55 




As fire drives out fire, so pity, pity — 


53 


III. 


55 




Et tu, Brute ! 


5t 


55 


55 




I pause for a reply. 


33 


55 


2 




Cry " Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war ; 


35 


55 


I 




Though last, not least. 


35 


55 


55 




The greater scorns the lesser : 


Timon of 
Athens. 


IV. 


3 




Men shut their doors against a setting sun : 


D 


I. 


2 




Policy sits above consicence. 


>> 


III. 


5» 




By the hazard of the spotted die, 
Let die the spotted. 


>* 


V. 


5 




He that's once denied will hardly speed. 


35 


III. 


2 


- 


The fire i' the flint 
Shows not till it be struck ; 


>> 


I. 


I 




The beached margent of the sea, 


Midsummer 
Night's Dream. 


II. 


55 




This is Ercles' vein, 


}) )> 


I. 


2 




Hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. 


55 55 


II. 


I 




The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; 


35 55 


» 


55 




I'll put a girdle round about the earth 
In forty minutes . . . 


55 55 


55 


55 




O, that a lady of one man refused, 
Should, of another, therefore be abused. 


55 55 


55 


3 




Single blessedness . . . 


55 55 


I. 


i 



269 



ADDENDA. 



PLAT. 



ACT. SC. 



And must for aye consort with black-brow' d night. 

Sickness is catching : 

And deeper than did ever plummet sound 
I'll drown my book. 

I will be correspondent to command 
And do my spiriting gently. 

From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, 

Thou dost snore distinctly ; 
There's meaning in thy snores. 

Good wombs have borne bad sons. 

Why, happy man be his dole ! 

'Tis safer to 

Avoid what's grown, than question how 'tis born. 

There's a time for all things. 

When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport, 
But creep in crannies, when he hides his beams. 

We'll pluck a crow together. 

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is ... . 

They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in 
nativity, chance, or death. 

In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit, 
Worthy the owner, and the owner it. 

I had rather be set quick i' the earth 
And bow'd to death with turnips ! 

Thereby hangs a tale : 

A man of my kidney . . . 

what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults 

Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year ! 

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be 
no more cakes and ale ? 

If one should be a prey, how much the better 
To fall before the lion than the wolf? 

1 have them at my fingers' ends. 

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. 
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud ! 
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. 



Midsummer 
Night's Dream 

55 55 

Tempest. 



Winter's Tale. 



Comedy of 
Errors. 



Merry Wives 
of Windsor. 



55 55 



Twelfth Night. 



in. 



v. 



i. 



ii. 



ii. 



in. 



in. 



in. 



ii. 

in. 

i. 
ii. 
in. 
v. 



270 



ADDENDA. 



PLAY. 



ACT. . SC. 





Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 


Twelfth Night. 


i. 


I. 




What need the bridge much broader than the flood ? 
The fairest grant is the necessity : 


Much Ado 
About Nothing. 


ii 


It 




O that he were here to write me down an ass 1 


>» n 


IV. 


2 




They that touch pitch will be defiled : 


v >> 


in. 


3 




An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. 


11 tt 


ii 


5 




But doth not the appetite alter ? A man loves the meat in 
his youth that he cannot endure in his age. 


11 11 


ii. 


3 




Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. 


Two Gentlemen 
of Verona. 


i. 


2 




When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, 
it goes hard : 


u n 


IV. 


4 




A true devoted pilgrim is not weary 

To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps ; 


n 11 


II. 


7 




Nature and sickness 
Debate it at their leisure. 


All's Well that 
Ends Well. 


I. 


2 




Disgraces have of late knocked too often at my door. 


ii ii 


IV. 


I 




■- x A young man married is a man that's marr'd: 


ii ii 


II. 


3 




Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 


ii ii 


I. 


i 




A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a livery of honour ; 


ii ii 


IV. 


5 




We have seen better days . . . 


As You Like It. 


II. 


7 




For ever and a day. 


ii ii 


IV. 


i 




At this hour the house doth keep itself ; 
There's none within. 


ii ii 


JJ 


3 




Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd. 


ii ii 


III. 


2 




Omittance is no quittance .... 


ii ii 


11 


5 




Creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. 


ii ii 


II. 


7 




I do not desire you to please me ; I do desire you to sing. 


ii >i 


11 


5 




Not a word ? 

Not one to throw at a dog. 


V* 5 1 


I. 


3 




Thereby hangs a tale. 


'» 11 


II. 


7 




To have seen much and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes 
and poor hands. 


11 >> 


IV. 


i 




Good wine needs no bush, 


11 11 


V. 


Epi- 
logue 




Though little fire grows great with little wind, 
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all : 


Taming of the 
. Shrew. 


II. 


i 



271 



ADDENDA. 



PLAT OR POEM. ACT. SC. 





There's small choice in rotten apples. 


Taming of the 
Shrew 


1 


I 




What, up and down, carved like an apple-tart? 


j) jf 


IV. 


3 




Where two raging fires meet together 










They do consume the thing that feeds their fury : 


>> » 


11. 


1 




He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. 


>? >> 


v. 


2 




Pitchers have ears, 


>> » 


IV. 


4 




No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : 


>> j> 


I. 


1 




The fishes live in the sea, ... as men do a-land ; the 










great ones eat up the little ones ; 


Pericles. 


II. 


>> 




Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat 










For men to see, and seeing wonder at. 


>» 


>> 


2 




Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast. 


>> 


»> 


3 




Crown'd with joy at last : 


* 
>» 


V. 


3 




This foul, grim and urchin -snouted boar, 


Venus and 








Whose downward eyes still looketh for a grave, 


Adonis. 








The text is old, the orator too green. 


i 








The mellow plum doth fall, the green sticks fast, 










Or being early pluck'd, is sour to taste. 


>» >> 








How many lambs might the stern wolf betray, 
If like a lamb he could his looks translate ! 

That affable familiar ghost, 

Which nightly gulls him with intelligence. 

My nature is subdued 


Sonnet 96. 
„ 86. 








To what it works in, like the dyer's hand ; 

The better angel is a man right fair, 
The worser spirit a woman, colour'd ill. 

Shuts him from the heaven of his thoughts, 
'Tis double death to drown in ken of shore ; 
He ten times pines, that pines beholding food ; 
Gnats are unnoted whereso'er they fly, 


„ in. 

„ 144- 

Tarquin and 
Lucrece. 

ft » 

5» >> 








But eagles gazed upon with every eye. 


>> » 









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